Paleontologists have uncovered fossils of a giant turtle species with some striking features, such as its shape, that lived tens of millions of years ago in South America. The research team found ...

The way that turtles evolved into their modern form, with a shell fused to their skeleton and a beaklike face without teeth, has been described as “one of evolution’s most enduring puzzles”.

A new species of ancient turtle that swam the shores of Europe millions of years ago may have been one of the largest sea turtles to have ever lived, scientists have said. Fossilised remains of ...

The curved-blade sword was first discovered during a 1994 archeological dig in Valencia Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I’m a journalist specializing in the quirky side of science and space. Tridentinosaurus antiquus is a fossil with an enigmatic history ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Colorado researchers discovered fossils of a new species of mammal at a site on the edge of Colorado Springs. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science researchers ...

Jan. 10, 2024 — Picrodontids -- an extinct family of placental mammals that lived several million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs -- are not primates as previously ... 'Juvenile T.

For example, the 2021 discovery of 480-million-year-old starfish-like animals in the Anti-Atlas mountains in Morocco helped us understand how these animals first appeared. Such fossils are the ...