Scientists have identified a 50-million-year-old fossil sea turtle in northern Syria, marking the country’s first formally ...

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Left hand side shows a drawing of the turtle's ribs and backbone superimposed onto the oval shaped fossil. Right hand shows the fossil without the drawing ontop. Two ancient plant fossils collected by ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. After spending millions of years tucked away in rocks, fossils can ...

A 90-million-year-old fossil discovery in New Mexico has just revealed abrand-new species of turtle, shaking up what we thought we knew about ancient reptiles. This rare find from the mysterious ...

Scientists discovered Syriemys lelunensis, a 50-million-year-old fossil sea turtle from Syria. Near the city of Afrin in ...

(CNN) — Ancient plant fossils that puzzled scientists have turned out not to be plants after all, new research has revealed. Instead, the small round shapes bearing a leaflike pattern were once the ...

Researchers re-examined a plant fossil found decades ago in Colombia and realized that it wasn't a plant at all: it's a fossilized baby turtle. It's a rare find, because juvenile turtles' shells are ...

Two fossilized specimens, each less than 2.5 inches in length, were originally thought to be plants. Now, scientists say they are preserved hatchling turtles. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, ...

“As soon as those two halves came together, like puzzle pieces, you knew it,” said Ted Daeschler, PhD, associate curator of vertebrate zoology and vice president for collections at the Academy of ...

Perseverance used its SHERLOC instrument for the photo. SHERLOC stands for Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & ...

From the 1950s to the 1970s, a Colombian priest named Padre Gustavo Huertas collected rocks and fossils near a town called Villa de Levya. Two of the specimens he found were small, round rocks ...