A 260 million-year-old fossil has been determined to be the oldest ancestor of turtles found to date, revealing something about the reptile's mysterious past.

Archaeologists discover fossil of ancient shell-less turtle By . Mike Wehner, BGR. Published Aug. 24, 2018, 3:47 p.m. ET. Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, a shell-less turtle developed a malady in its bones. Now, 240 million years later, the Triassic period turtle is finally receiving a diagnosis: bone cancer.

Recently, however, a fossil turtle was found that had no shell, but that DID have a beak. ... Please keep comments to less than 150 words. No abusive material or spam will be published.

The dawn beak turtle had a beak but no shell, but modern turtles have all of the above. This strongly hints that the evolution of the species we see on Earth today is likely far more complicated ...

The shell-less turtle relative sporting the tumor, Pappochelys rosinae, was first revealed to the world in 2015. At the time, the Chihuahua-size species was hailed as the final piece in the ...

The biggest turtle ever described wasn’t an ancestor of today’s leatherback turtles or any other living sea turtles. But it looks like there are some things about being a giant, skin-shelled ...