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.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleontologists in Spain believe they unearthed a new prehistoric sea turtle species that may be among the largest ever, according ...

A group of adorable baby turtles - some no bigger than a 50-cent coin - have passed their first official health checks at an Australian zoo. The pint-sized hatchlings, which are part of Aussie Ark's ...

Fossils of one of the largest turtles that ever lived have been found in South America, scientists said this week. Remains of the car-size freshwater beast, called Stupendemys geographicus, were found ...

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 ...

In the swamps of northern South America some 10 million years ago, quotidian life-or-death battles unfolded at epic scale. Giant caimans, in the same family as alligators, stalked the wetlands of ...

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 ...