Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (ICRA_Arts / SWNS) A giant turtle the size of a great white shark roamed the oceans around 80 million years ago, say scientists.

Paleontologists have discovered the fossil remains of one of the largest turtles that ever lived. Measuring about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, it roamed the seas of Europe during the age of the ...

Researchers have unearthed the remains of a new species of gigantic marine turtle in northern Spain. Weighing about two tons and measuring 12 feet long, the prehistoric creature is the largest of its ...

Snapping turtles are among the oldest reptiles still alive today, with a history that stretches back roughly 200 million ...

A turtle the size of a small car once roamed what is now South America 60 million years ago, suggests its fossilized remains. Discovered in a coal mine in Colombia in 2005, the turtle was given the ...

Paleontologists in Spain believe they unearthed a new prehistoric sea turtle species that may be among the largest ever, according to research published last week in the peer-reviewed journal ...

Students, scientists and area residents helped survey turtle diversity at Hornsby Spring on Sunday as part of the Santa Fe ...

Homopus areolatus – one of the smallest recent tortoise species. Credit: Abu Shawka, WikimediaCommons International researchers, including Dr. Gabriel Ferreira of the Senckenberg Center for Human ...