The researchers also found that one stage in the modern turtle’s embryonic development resembles a 220-million-year-old fossil discovered in China last year that has an incomplete shell.

Unlike previously discovered dinosaurs eggs, these eggs had soft-shells, like turtle eggs. New research posits that the earliest dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs, not hard-shelled ones.

The Chinese soft-shelled turtle, Pelodiscus sinensis, excretes urea mainly through the mouth instead of the kidney. Journal of Experimental Biology , 2012; 215 (21): 3723 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.068916 ...

Turtles are pretty mellow creatures, but they excel at causing strife among paleontologists. Researchers have long been left guessing as to how soft-backed animals somehow transitioned into the ...

Two odd-looking Chinese soft-shelled marsh turtles raised for food in Asia have been seen south of Boston, and there's concern they could eventually threaten local ecosystems if they become esta ...

A soft-shelled turtle in China pees through its mouth—the first evidence of an animal doing so. The Chinese soft-shelled turtle is the first animal known to pee via its mouth.

New research suggests that the first dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs -- a finding that contradicts established thought. The study analyzed the eggs of two vastly different non-avian dinosaurs and ...

Instead of cracking open like a chicken's egg, some dinosaurs may have emerged from soft-shelled eggs, like turtles or snakes. Steph Panecasio was an Editor based in Sydney, Australia. She knows a ...