JACKSONVILLE — A 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle fossil, discovered by an Alabama family on a fishing trip, has provided groundbreaking insights thanks to research conducted in part by Dr.

In South Africa, fossil turtles left trails near ancient shores. The Monte Cònero marks look like they came from swimmers, not walkers. That points strongly to sea turtles. The numbers add weight. On ...

For years, the Coleman family's fishing trips on the Alabama Gulf Coast were routine. But in 2021, their outing near a riverbank led to an odd find: the shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea ...

A family from Mobile found the fossil of a newly discovered genus of the endangered leatherback sea turtle along a riverbank in south Alabama. And thanks to a series of events that unfolded over the ...

MOBILE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A family fishing trip in south Alabama led to the remarkable discovery of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle fossil, now identified as a new genus and species ...

Who knew what was initially a peaceful day of fishing near a river in Monroe County, in the state of Alabama, in 2021, was to become a momentous scientific event? Let’s go back to the time when the ...

It appeared that sea turtles were fleeing an earthquake. Scientists found sea turtle escape tracks from 80 million years ago on a mountain. Earthquake and underwater avalanche preserved the tracks in ...

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Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before modern turtles evolved into the familiar forms we recognize today, some ...