While rockhounding with family, 11-year-old Touren Pope stumbled upon a remarkably preserved 48-million-year-old turtle shell ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. After spending millions of years tucked away in rocks, fossils can ...

Researchers re-examined a plant fossil found decades ago in Colombia and realized that it wasn't a plant at all: it's a fossilized baby turtle. It's a rare find, because juvenile turtles' shells are ...

Left hand side shows a drawing of the turtle's ribs and backbone superimposed onto the oval shaped fossil. Right hand shows the fossil without the drawing ontop. Two ancient plant fossils collected by ...

A treasure trove of rare freshwater fossils has been described from Taiwan in a new study. Dating back to the Early Pleistocene, over 1 million years ago, they include a baby snail preserved inside ...

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 ...

How smushed shells could help to resolve paleontological mysteries. By Asher Elbein You never know where a bit of unusual scientific research is going to lead. Consider a 2012 study about turtle ...