The fossil (left) was originally thought to be an extinct plant. New research has revealed the fossil shows the inside of an ancient baby turtle's shell, including its rib and back bones as ...

Interestingly, other early fossils of different turtle species had shells but no beaked jaws. The dawn beak turtle had a beak but no shell, but modern turtles have all of the above.

The fossil first described in 2003 was originally interpreted to be a plant. Researchers have now discovered that it is the inside of the shell of a baby turtle.

New species of flying reptile that lived among dinosaurs 200 million years ago discovered - Scientists uncovered the the ...

An environmental scientist at Harrisburg University recently found the shell of an extinct, previously unknown turtle species at a fossil site in Tennessee. The discovery of the painted turtle ...

Scientists have identified a new species of pterosaur from a fossilised jawbone discovered deep in the Arizona desert. The ...

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.

Two ASU paleontologists have discovered a new prehistoric sea turtle. The nearly 4-feet-long fossilized shell was unearthed ...

A fossilized turtle shell that sat unnoticed for decades in the collection at the University of Alabama actually belongs to a previously unknown species of ‘giant’ freshwater turtle that ...

Fossils of this marine turtle were first discovered in the 1970s, but the new specimen “is the best preserved individual of this species,” said lead study author Felix Augustin, a doctoral ...

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 fossil (left) was originally thought to be an extinct plant. New research has revealed the fossil shows the inside of an ancient baby turtle's shell, including its rib and back bones as ...