This Giant Ancient Turtle Dwarfs Its Modern Ancestors

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...
K2 Radio

11-year-old Touren Pope discovers ancient turtle fossil on BLM land in Wyoming

While rockhounding with family, 11-year-old Touren Pope stumbled upon a remarkably preserved 48-million-year-old turtle shell in Wyoming, igniting excitement for paleontology and public land ...
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Rock Climbers In Italy Stumble Upon Evidence Of An 80-Million-Year-Old Sea Turtle Stampede

Grooves in the limestone at Italy's Monte Cònero may have been left by sea turtles fleeing an earthquake 80 million years ago ...
Earth.com

Hikers stumble upon fossil evidence of an ancient sea turtle stampede dating back 80 million years

A rock face on the Monte Conero anticline holds many paddle-like footprint tracks packed together on one surface, likely made ...
Charlotte Observer

Inside N.C. Science: Ancient turtle comes into focus, piece by piece

If you live in North Carolina, you’ve probably seen a turtle roaming around at some point: They’re well-established residents of this state and continent and have been for millions of years. One ...
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Confirmed—scientists confirm on Mount Cònero that a stampede of sea turtles was frozen by a prehistoric earthquake

Today, we are going to talk about sea turtles. Well, actually, about a real story of how a group of Italian rock climbers found strange grooves in the rock ...
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Turtle Scales May Hold the Secret to How Dinosaurs Formed Their Skin

Turtles have roamed the Earth since the Triassic Period over 200 million years ago. A new study about their evolution, published in iScience, shows how the scales on turtles' heads can teach us more ...