Sep 29, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers from the Universidad del Rosario, the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the Field Museum of Natural...

Nov 18, 2022 by News Staff

Aside from being the largest marine turtle species ever discovered in Europe, and one of the largest worldwide, the discovery of Leviathanochelys aenigmatica...

Mar 29, 2018 by News Staff

According to a new study published online in the journal PeerJ, foraging marine turtles use flippers to handle prey despite the limbs being evolutionarily...

Oct 17, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists from the United States, Sweden, and Japan has retrieved original pigment, beta-keratin and muscle proteins from...

Sep 7, 2015 by News Staff

A new species of ancient sea turtle has been identified from fossils found in Colombia. The fossils are at least 120 million years old, about 10 million...

Apr 16, 2015 by News Staff

In a new paper in the journal Biology Letters, scientists reported fossil traces of Osedax – a genus of bone-devouring worms that both eat and inhabit...

Apr 10, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Current Biology, young sea turtles don’t just passively drift in ocean currents during a period known...

Jun 26, 2014 by News Staff

The former NBA star Yao Ming has teamed up with non-profit organization Sea Turtles 911 and Hainan Normal University to save Green turtles (Chelonia mydas). Yao...

Apr 3, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists say they have made a surprising discovery – a fossil bone of an extinct turtle species scientifically known as Atlantochelys mortoni. In...

Jan 9, 2014 by News Staff

Fossilized skin pigments from an 85 million-year-old mosasaur, a 193 million-year-old ichthyosaur and a 55 million-year-old leatherback turtle have revealed...

Dec 31, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Every year, hundreds of new dinosaurs, prehistoric marine reptiles and fishes are discovered, and among them are always a few really weird or beautiful...

Jul 22, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists have described a new extinct genus and species of sea turtle that lived in shallow seas about 67 million years ago during Late Cretaceous. Reconstruction...