Fossils of this marine turtle were first discovered in the 1970s ... “It is the first that preserves the complete skull, the complete shell, and also all four complete limbs.” ...

A beautifully preserved shelled reptile recovered from a Bavarian limestone deposit helps tell the story of how turtles first took ... years have pulled complete fossils of everything from fish ...

The chelonian-crunching method can also be applied to other turtle-rich fossil sites where shallow ... Dr. Petermann said. Mammal skulls from the Cenozoic era tend to shatter around the opening ...

More Juan Giraldo, "In terms of its diet, we still lack data as we do not have skull or mandible fossils," Cadena said. "However, we would expect it to have been a mollusk and plant-eating turtle ...

The oddly shaped fossilized skull is trapped inside a rock that was ... A never-before-seen species of ancient turtle was identified from the remains of a 70 million-year-old fossilized shell ...

The uniquely intact fossil has been identified as a new ... “Synchrotrons in other areas of the world have been used to study the skulls of turtles, but I think this is one of the first ...

the turtle fossil is an almost complete shell with cervical, dorsal and caudal vertebrae, scapulae, pelvic girdle and appendicular bones. Sadly, the skull was missing. Lead author Megan Jacobs ...