According to the Fingerlakes Land Trust website, the American snapping turtle of "the genus Chelyridae evolved in North America 90 million years ago, and modern specimens look very little different ...

The DNA comes from the remains of a turtle shell first uncovered in 2015 in the Chagres Formation on Panama’s Caribbean coast. It represents the oldest known fossil evidence of Lepidochelys turtles.

A research team has identified many different genetic lineages in the softshell turtle genus Pelodiscus, representing different species. Traditionally it has been assumed that only the species ...

A study from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have revealed that fossils found in west Alabama belonged to a turtle who swam the seas 75 million years ago. The discovery of the ...

Researchers excavate the 6 million year old fossil remains of a sea turtle of the genus Lepidochelys near La Pina along the Caribbean coast of Panama (Reuters) - Remnants of DNA have been discovered ...

The discovery of ancient tortoise and turtle fossils had led scientists to conclude that parts of the Andes were less than a mile in altitude about 13 million years ago. A five-foot-long shell from an ...

The North American box turtles belong to a taxonomically diverse assemblage adapted to a wide variety of habitats. Relationships within the genus are complex, and variation within T. carolina is ...

A 5.5-million-year-old fossil species of turtle has been discovered in eastern Tennessee. The turtle represents a new species of the genus Trachemys, commonly known as sliders, which are frequently ...

"A lavishly illustrated guide to the world's turtles that covers every family and genus. Turtles of the World reveals the extraordinary diversity of these amazing reptiles. Characterized by the bony ...

East of the northern Ucayali River in Peru is a geologically subsiding basin crossed by winding rivers and extensive wetlands. Much of this topographically flat region is flooded for several months ...

Most people have a turtle story. Perhaps they watched one glide through an aquarium tank as a child, helped one cross a busy road, or have spotted one in the wild and stopped to admire its determined ...