Sometime between 5.5 and 5.6 million years ago, two shell crushers squared off in the languid currents of an ancient Florida ...

"I immediately thought of gar." ...

Palaeontologists have got a clearer picture of where turtles fit in the animal kingdom, thanks to analysis of a southern ...

Everything about the discovery of a fossilized leatherback sea turtle in Alabama four years ago is fascinating. The findings of the never-before studied species were published in a study Friday, ...

For years, the Coleman family's fishing trips on the Alabama Gulf Coast were routine. But in 2021, their outing near a riverbank led to an odd find: the shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea ...

For decades, turtles have stumped scientists trying to place the shelled reptiles on the evolutionary tree. Now, a new study ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A fishing trip in south Alabama led to one of the most remarkable fossil finds in the world. The Coleman family was out fishing north of Mobile in 2021 when they spotted ...

Learn how a 260-million-year-old Permian reptile, once thought to explain turtle evolution, turned out to belong to a different lineage, reshaping the story of turtle origins in the Triassic Period.

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before modern turtles evolved into the familiar forms we recognize today, some ...