Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

Freshwater extinctions rarely happen overnight, especially in a habitat as large as the Yangtze River. However, it’s still ...

The giant turtle is something you might have spotted in the Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 1 trailer, swimming around a lake and scaring Peely off their boat. Although it’s not part of a marked location on ...

Paleontologists have uncovered fossils of a giant turtle species with some striking features, such as its shape, that lived tens of millions of years ago in South America. The research team found the ...

An illustrated reconstruction of Leviathanochelys aenigmatica. Credit: ICRA_Arts. (CN) — The largest living species of sea turtle, the leatherback, which can reach up to six feet long, would look tiny ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

(CNN) - Long ago, gigantic marine turtles swam the Earth’s seas. Until recently, these prehistoric giants, reaching lengths of over 3 meters (10 feet) from head to tail, had been thought to be found ...