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 ...

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 ...

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.

A turtle's shell is part of the reptile's skeleton, and it protects some of the strangest features in the animal kingdom. Here's what's inside.

A tweet from a UCSD Postdoc went viral this month. Turtle expert Ceri Weber posted that a turtle's shell is actually not a shell at all, but rather a set of modified ribs. It's true.