In the 1990s, paleontologists exploring dinosaur‑rich badlands in the Zuni Basin of western New Mexico uncovered a turtle ...

JACKSONVILLE — A 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle fossil, discovered by an Alabama family on a fishing trip, has provided groundbreaking insights thanks to research conducted in part by Dr.

For years, the Coleman family's fishing trips on the Alabama Gulf Coast were routine. But in 2021, their outing near a riverbank led to an odd find: the shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea ...

A family from Mobile found the fossil of a newly discovered genus of the endangered leatherback sea turtle along a riverbank in south Alabama. And thanks to a series of events that unfolded over the ...

CASPER, Wyo. (WKRC) - An 11-year-old boy discovered a nearly complete fossilized turtle during a rock-hunting trip in southwest Wyoming, officials with Bureau of Land Management said. Touren Pope was ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before modern turtles evolved into the familiar forms we recognize today, some ...

Touren Pope was out rockhounding in Wyoming when he stumbled upon the well-preserved specimen. An 11-year-old discovered a 48-million-year-old fossilized turtle shell in Wyoming. The find was reported ...