Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice ...

The shells of turtles, tortoises, and sea turtles show a remarkable connection to our 20th-century nuclear history. This astounding revelation comes to light in a new study, which casts an enduring ...

Learn how researchers use archaeological techniques to show how sea turtle shells grow in layers that capture chemical clues ...

A team of paleontologists studying the fossilized shell of a sea turtle from the Miocene Epoch found something surprising and perhaps impossible: preserved bone cells that they believe may contain ...

Turtles with shell-cracking jaws were far more likely to survive extinction due to their ability to be sustained on a restricted diet.

Sea turtle shells record life history layer by layer over many years, clearly revealing diet, stress, movement, and ocean ...