The leatherback sea turtle offers a rare look into prehistoric life and reveals how a lineage can survive mass extinctions, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. About as thick as a standard dictionary, this turtle’s shell may have warded off attacks by the Titanoboa, thought to have been the world’s ...

Requiem’s flapping flippers almost sounded like bird wings fluttering as Morgan Flannagan, a Georgia Sea Turtle Center hospital technician, pulled the green sea turtle from a rehabilitation tank.

Researchers were unaware that this large fossil was even an egg until they pierced through its membrane with microscopes and ...

"This group of animals comprises a complex of disparate groups including the dolphin/shark-like ichthyosaurs, manatee-like placodonts, long- and short-necked plesiosaurs, the mososaur lizards, marine ...

Alligator snapping turtles, like the one seen in this file photo, were classified as endangered in Kansas in 1974. The state has begun a reintroduction program to bring the creatures back to Kansas ...

A rare federally protected Atlantic sturgeon fish found in Hilton Head, South Carolina, is drawing attention from marine ...