According to the study, the fossils represent a now-extinct turtle species known as Puentemys mushaisaensis, which lived in the northernmost part of South America around 57 million years ago.
The prehistoric turtle may have reached a total body length of around 5 feet, according to paleontologists. Paleontologists have uncovered fossils of a giant turtle species with some striking features ...
Chun has spent the last 20 years studying reptile fossils in China’s Guizhou province, where the 220-million-year-old turtle was also found.
A 127 million-year-old fossil of a side-necked turtle, the first found to have lived in the UK, has been discovered on the Isle of Wight. The fossil has been nicknamed 'Burby' after enthusiast Steve ...
The largest known sea turtle is the extinct Archelon, which lived in the seas surrounding the North American continent somewhere between 66 to 100 million years ago. The Archelon was around 4.6 ...
The new research, published in Cretaceous Research, focuses on a 94-million-year-old mosasaur discovered in the gray shale badlands of the National ... the Kaiparowits for the air-conditioned comfort ...
The fossils, including one belonging to ancient ... on Earth at the same time as the ape known as Lucy, whose 3.2-million-year-old remains belonging to Africa's Australopithecus afarensis were ...
The findings make Meghalaya the fifth state in India after Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu to report sauropod bones with Titanosaurian affinity ...