The bone fragments of this newly identified species ... This feature or muscle most likely impacted the turtles’ breathing capacity, allowing them to hold their breath longer than other turtle ...

MANCHESTER, England and GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Thousands of years ago, the inhabitants of modern-day Florida and the Caribbean feasted on sea turtles, leaving behind bones that tell tales of ...

Thousands of years ago, the inhabitants of modern-day Florida and the Caribbean feasted on sea turtles, leaving behind bones that tell tales of ancient diets and the ocean’s past. Now, an ...

Figure 1: Competing hypotheses for the origin of the anapsid skull of modern turtles. Figure 4: Generalized amniote phylogeny showing sequence of major transformations in the origin of the turtle ...

The specimen also included some bones from the reptile’s paddling ... showing that they differed dramatically from the extremities of sea turtles alive today. “In modern-day sea turtles ...

Researchers counted the concentric rings in the bones of deceased turtles to determine their age Flatbacks in WA come of age at 16 years, but they mature at about 18-20 years on the east coast ...

A sea turtle's shell is a complex masterpiece, made up of two parts: the carapace (top) and the plastron (bottom), both covered in scutes -- tough keratin plates tightly attached to the bone.

Some white-tailed deer on the Costa Rican coastline have a macabre habit: chewing sea turtle bones. Researchers have recently documented scores of the herbivores scavenging on the remains ...