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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.