For years, the Coleman family's fishing trips on the Alabama Gulf Coast were routine. But in 2021, their outing near a ...

A fishing trip in south Alabama led to one of the most remarkable fossil finds in the world. The Coleman family was out ...

"The turtle shell, which is roughly 4 feet long and 3 feet across, represents a new genus and species of leatherback sea ...

“When we came across that, we all just kind of stared at each other for a minute, like ‘This is it,’” said Adrienne Coleman, whose 13-year-old daughter spotted the fossil during a family boat trip ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection, along with U.S. Fish and Wildlife, have seized a huge shipment of endangered sea turtle shells at Miami International Airport. The shipment was ...

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) -- A dentist used denture repair adhesive to help mend an endangered green sea turtle's fractured shell in the Florida Keys. On Thursday, Fred Troxel examined Elena, a 40-pound ...

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. – Officials are searching for two men who reportedly removed the shell of a sea turtle that had washed ashore on June 8 in Jacksonville Beach, the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

The sea creature arrived at San Diego's Birch Aquarium in 2014 Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor in Journalism.

A 260 million-year-old fossil has been determined to be the oldest ancestor of turtles found to date, revealing something about the reptile's mysterious past. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, ...

A new study found trace amounts of nuclear waste in sea turtles in the Marshall Islands and five locations in the continental United States, underscoring the enduring legacy of nuclear testing and ...