The prehistoric turtle may have reached a total body length of around 5 feet, according to paleontologists. Paleontologists have uncovered fossils of a giant turtle species with some striking features ...
It “fit together perfectly, like a multimillion-year-old jigsaw,” the statement noted. The latest piece was recovered in October 2022. After evaluating the fossils, the team surmised that the ...
The largest known sea turtle is the extinct Archelon, which lived in the seas surrounding the North American continent somewhere between 66 to 100 million years ago. The Archelon was around 4.6 ...
The new research, published in Cretaceous Research, focuses on a 94-million-year-old mosasaur discovered in the gray shale badlands of the National ... the Kaiparowits for the air-conditioned comfort ...
The 280-million-year-old reptile specimen has been hailed for ... “It's not terribly surprising to hear of fabricated fossils,” says paleontologist Kat Schroeder, who was not involved in ...
Paleontologists discovered that the exceptional preservation of 45-million-year-old frog fossils can be attributed to the mineralization of their skin, offering new insights into their adaptation to ...