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 ...

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

As little as 9,000 years ago, a sofa-sized turtle paddled around the Brazilian Amazon. The finding, based on a fossilized jawbone, reveals that some of the most massive turtles ever lived relatively ...

An illustrated reconstruction of Leviathanochelys aenigmatica. Credit: ICRA_Arts. (CN) — The largest living species of sea turtle, the leatherback, which can reach up to six feet long, would look tiny ...