A new fossil of the oldest proto turtle, Eunotosaurus, discovered by then 8-year-old Kobus Snyman on his father's farm in the Karoo in South Africa, suggests the turtle shell initially evolved not ...

“It was covered with turtle shells,” Herrera recalled. They were bleached white and shimmering in the heat. The team collected fossils and returned to Gainesville. Over the next few ...

Relatively few fossils of early turtles have been found, leaving it a mystery how the creature developed its unique features, and even which ancestors they evolved from. A research published in ...

Fossils of snails, fish, turtles, and other creatures paint a ... and the first documented example of a small, tropical air-breathing land snail from the genus Leptinaria. Despite the area ...

“The configuration of the fossil turtle suggests that the shell was possibly trodden on by a large sauropod dinosaur,” reads a paper on the finding which was published by the Swiss Journal of ...

The new discovery helps fill in the missing evolutionary gap of the Late Cretaceous Pleurodires, or side-neck river turtles, in Egypt and North Africa. The discovery of the fossil was published in ...