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

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

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

New "tissue clock" technique reconstructs sea turtle life histories from shell chemistryMIAMI — Techniques developed to study the distant past—from ...

A sea turtle’s shell is living bone fused directly to its spine and ribs. It is not a detachable shield or an external case, as certain quirky cartoons have shown. The shell grows with the turtle, ...

The year was 1999, and a university student named Yaniv Levy, majoring in marine biology, was taking a walk on the sands of Mikhmoret beach north of Netanya when he happened upon a large sea turtle, ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in Alabama has unveiled a new ancient sea turtle species, Ueloca colemanorum. Found by the ...

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

A sea turtle in Kansas City is now swimming with ease after receiving a custom weighted harness. Tortellini the sea turtle ...

A Kemp's ridley sea turtle swims into the ocean after being released by New England Aquarium biologists in West Dennis, ...