with a shell fused to their skeleton and a beaklike face without teeth, has been described as “one of evolution’s most enduring puzzles”. Relatively few fossils of early turtles have been ...

A thickened shell could have meant the difference between living and becoming a snack. Some scientists propose that these predator-prey interactions may have shaped early marine communities more than ...

One standout discovery was a large, metre-long soft-shelled turtle skeleton unearthed in 2023. This fossil, now on display at the museum, offers a glimpse into the unique biodiversity of ancient ...

Is this adequate? The cat seems underweight to me, so I ask. J.N. Dear J.N., The most common causes for turtle shell defects are trauma, bacterial or fungal infections, poor hygiene sometimes ...

A turtle living near the New York Giants stadium appears to be rooting against her hometown team's biggest rival in the Super Bowl. Thelma, a river turtle at SEA LIFE Aquarium New Jersey, made her ...

Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as well as the ways today’s birds and crocodiles reproduce, leave no doubt on that ...

The goal of the project was to develop a sensitive and specific portable eDNA water test to detect a known individual of Swinhoe's softshell Turtle, confirmed through a previous capture and ...

Jan. 30, 2025 — Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity ...