A fossilized egg unearthed in Antarctica has rewritten the narrative of ancient marine reptiles and their reproduction. This ...

Why it's awesome: Cantor's giant softshell turtles — named in honor of Danish zoologist Theodore Edward Cantor — spend 95% of their lives completely motionless, buried under mud or sand in ...

Here’s how it works. Why it's awesome: Cantor's giant softshell turtles — named in honor of Danish zoologist Theodore Edward Cantor — spend 95% of their lives completely motionless ...

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), the Yangtze giant softshell ... difficult for the turtles to find places to breed and lead to increased ...

Forever chemicals could cause a population collapse in freshwater turtles after scientists observed serious health impacts as a result of exposure to the toxins.

A sea turtle was found floating with a shattered shell in the waters off Sta. Ana Cagayan, according to the "Kuya Kim, Ano na?" report on 24 Oras Thursday. Fisherman Jerald Ignacio saw the floating ...

The bone, described two decades after its discovery, suggests the species might have grown up to 20 percent bigger than other terror birds Alexa Robles-Gil Daily ...

Embedded in the 80-pound sandstone rock was the fossil of a soft shelled turtle. Dave Leite with the WCHS enlisted the help of his brother, a geologist in Nebraska, to identify the turtle as ...

A 12-million-year-old fossil of a prehistoric "terror bird" discovered in South America might represent the largest known member of its kind found to date, a study ...

The most Canadian animal? It's not the beaver that marks the nickel, the moose that pervades souvenir shops across the ...

In fact, the spiny softshell turtle is Canada’s most distinct animal in evolutionary terms, researchers from Simon Fraser University show in a first-of-its-kind study. Arne Mooers, a biodiversity ...