Learn about the unique way turtles create their scales and how it’s revealing an ancient evolutionary link to dinosaurs, ...

Join me as I dig into a 70-million-year-old dinosaur fossil site in Texas! 🦖 From uncovering turtle shells to a potential dinosaur skull, this adventure is filled with ancient treasures. Plus, a ...

Our Pteranodon family is on the beach watching small eggs hatch and baby Archelon turtles emerge, and start to swim away. / Tiny and Buddy find out that a newer train called The Rocket Train will be ...

A turtle’s head seems simple: a hard beak, two bright eyes, and a quilt of scales that protect the skull. Look closer and a ...

A study shows that turtles use both genetic signals and mechanical forces to form the scales on their heads, revealing a ...

The species of Snapping Turtles found in South Dakota is the "common snapping turtle" (or known as Chelydra serpentina).

(Related: Where are all the male sea turtles going?) They outlasted the dinosaurs, but “no turtle has time to evolve to avoid being killed on a road,” says Whit Gibbons, emeritus professor of ...

The state is best known for its manatees and alligators, but one of the world's most important sea turtle refuges is quietly ...

The first reported fossilised stomach contents from a sauropod, belonging to a Diamantinasaurus that lived 95 million years ...

About a hundred million years ago, a dinosaur more than 50 feet long prowled ... “All sorts of semiaquatic animals today—turtles, marine mammals—all self-right; they're not constantly ...

In most vertebrates, skin appendages such as hair, feathers, or scales originate from placodes—small, specialized skin ...

She’s right. The best part of the exhibit is the live animals. The snake-necked turtle’s neck grows to over half the size of ...