Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an ...

“It blew all of our minds," his mother said of the prehistoric find ...

Kids’ summer adventures often end in finding cool rocks. But 11-year-old Touren Pope found a prehistoric turtle. Back in July ...

Touren Pope was rockhounding in the Greater Green River Basin when he found a remarkable foot-long fossil. It turned out to be the shell of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JACKSONVILLE — A 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle fossil, discovered by an Alabama family on a fishing trip, has ...

An 11-year-old's casual rock hunt in Wyoming ended with a big fossil find. While searching for quartz crystals and other rocks on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in southwest Wyoming with his ...

CASPER, Wyo. (WKRC) - An 11-year-old boy discovered a nearly complete fossilized turtle during a rock-hunting trip in southwest Wyoming, officials with Bureau of Land Management said. Touren Pope was ...

Touren Pope took a few days off school the second week of February, but this was not just some regular family vacation.

A rock face on the Monte Conero anticline holds many paddle-like footprint tracks packed together on one surface, likely made by sea turtles.

The post This Giant Ancient Turtle Dwarfs Its Modern Ancestors appeared first on A-Z Animals. Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite ...

JACKSONVILLE — A 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle fossil, discovered by an Alabama family on a fishing trip, has provided groundbreaking insights thanks to research conducted in part by Dr.