A giant turtle the size of a great white shark roamed the oceans around 80 million years ago, say scientists. It was one of the largest that ever lived - measuring more than twelve feet long and ...

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

A turtle the size of a small car once roamed what is now South America 60 million years ago, suggests its fossilized remains. Discovered in a coal mine in Colombia in 2005, the turtle was given the ...

Paleontologists have discovered the fossil remains of one of the largest turtles that ever lived. Measuring about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, it roamed the seas of Europe during the age of the ...

Paleontologists in Spain believe they unearthed a new prehistoric sea turtle species that may be among the largest ever, according to research published last week in the peer-reviewed journal ...

The eggshell was incredibly thick. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. About 90 million years ago, a giant turtle in what is now ...

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