This Giant Ancient Turtle Dwarfs Its Modern Ancestors

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...
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11-year-old Touren Pope discovers ancient turtle fossil on BLM land in Wyoming

While rockhounding with family, 11-year-old Touren Pope stumbled upon a remarkably preserved 48-million-year-old turtle shell in Wyoming, igniting excitement for paleontology and public land ...
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Hey Kids: Learn how an 11-year-old discovered an ancient turtle

Last fall, a routine day of rockhounding on Bureau of Land Management-managed public land in southwest Wyoming turned into an ...
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Rock Climbers In Italy Stumble Upon Evidence Of An 80-Million-Year-Old Sea Turtle Stampede

Grooves in the limestone at Italy's Monte Cònero may have been left by sea turtles fleeing an earthquake 80 million years ago ...
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Turtle Scales May Hold the Secret to How Dinosaurs Formed Their Skin

Turtles have roamed the Earth since the Triassic Period over 200 million years ago. A new study about their evolution, published in iScience, shows how the scales on turtles' heads can teach us more ...
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11-year-old discovers ancient turtle fossil on BLM land

Last fall, a routine day of rockhounding on Bureau of Land Management–managed public land in southwest Wyoming turned into an ...
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11-year-old Touren Pope discovers ancient turtle fossil in southwest Wyoming

SWEETWATER COUNTY -- Last fall, a routine day of rockhounding on Bureau of Land Management–managed public land in southwest Wyoming turned into an extraordinary discovery. While exploring public lands ...