Learn about the unique way turtles create their scales and how it's revealing an ancient evolutionary link to dinosaurs, ...

That was the takeaway from Tuesday’s physical examination of Myrtle, an ancient green sea turtle that has delighted visitors to the New England Aquarium in Boston for more than 50 years.

Ancient plant fossils that puzzled scientists ... the small round shapes bearing a leaflike pattern were once the shells of baby turtles that lived during the time of dinosaurs.

Sellés, who co-authored the study, said the team began comparing newly discovered remains to other giant ancient sea turtles in the fossil record like Archelon and Protostega, both of which ...

Apparently that wasn’t always the case, as a new set of fossils from China reveals that some ancient turtles never bothered to grow a shell at all. In a new paper published in Nature ...