He decided to call this turtle’s genus Shakiremys because, first, he’s a Shakira fan, and second, Shakira is a Colombian ...

Researchers in Colombia have discovered a turtle fossil dating back 13 million years. Found by local farmers, the specimen ...

A family from Mobile found the fossil of a newly discovered genus of the endangered leatherback sea turtle along a riverbank in south Alabama. And thanks to a series of events that unfolded over the ...

A newly discovered species of extinct, fossilized freshwater turtle discovered in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil was named for Maturin, a character from the works of novelist Stephen King. The fossil ...

MOBILE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A family fishing trip in south Alabama led to the remarkable discovery of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle fossil, now identified as a new genus and species ...

CLARKE COUNTY, Ala. (WALA) - A fishing trip for a family of four, a few year’s ago, turned up a one-in-a-million find. The Coleman’s were on the Alabama river in Clarke County when they discovered a ...

A Florida man, once hailed by Smithsonian Magazine for discovering the fossilized remains of a mammoth jawbone, now finds himself in hot water after pocketing thousands of dollars for unlawfully ...

Around 1000 markings on a slab of rock that was once a seafloor during the Cretaceous period may have been made by sea turtle ...