A giant turtle the size of a great white shark roamed the oceans around 80 million years ago, say scientists. It was one of the largest that ever lived - measuring more than twelve feet long and ...

(Reuters) - Plying the subtropical seas that washed the coasts of the archipelago that made up Europe 83 million years ago was one of the largest turtles on record, a reptile the size of a small car - ...

A new pelomedusoid turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar provides evidence for convergent evolution of suction feeding among pleurodires. Fig. 1 Life reconstruction of Sahonachelys mailakavava ...

Palaeontologists have found the first known example of a fossilised turtle embryo preserved inside an egg, an unusual time capsule from the Late Cretaceous. Fossil turtle eggs are rare finds. Rarer ...

Scientists describe the find of a new softshell turtle from the end of the Cretaceous Period. A newly described softshell turtle that lived in North Dakota 66.5 million years ago at the end of the ...

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A new species of ancient turtle that survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs has been discovered in Romania. Fossils uncovered in Transylvania were found to be a never-before-seen creature ...