Cavemen hunted turtles — but not for food, new research suggests. Scientists say that shells of reptiles caught by children may have been used as ladles or digging devices by early humans over 100,000 ...

This illustration shows the size difference between a European pond turtle and the foot of a straight-tusked elephant. Nicole Viehofer / Monrepos (Leiza) While living in central Europe roughly 125,000 ...

The practice began in 1920s Western variety shows and spread to city speakeasies, but it faces increased scrutiny today—and pressure from conservation groups to make races safer for the reptiles. In ...

Humongous Turtle Shell Unearthed. This shows an 8-million-year-old turtle shell that measured nearly 8 feet (2.4 meters) was discovered in Venezuela. Trump administration fires entire National Science ...

This is what it might have looked like around 125,000 years ago: a European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) next to the foot of a European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus).

View of remains of Olive Ridley turtles at Mismaloya beach on the Pacific coast of Jalisco State, Mexico, on December 9, 2012. According to the University of Guadalajara staff, 30 percent of the ...

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The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on Earth. Vertebrate groups that dominated at the time, such as dinosaurs and ...

Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice cores—are now being repurposed to help us better understand the lives of modern ...