World Turtle Day reminds us that these 200-million-year-old survivors face modern threats like plastic pollution and habitat ...

"And teeth, it had a mouthful of them." Only later did turtles become toothless. Eunotosaurus lived during the Permian Period 20 million years before Pappochelys, a creature from Germany that in ...

While snapping turtles have no teeth, hatchlings have a toothlike growth on the ends of their noses, which they use to pierce the leathery eggshell. It falls off shortly after they hatch.

Here's something different for a change: some good news! Endangered sea turtle populations are showing signs of growing a little. That’s right. The animal that launched an assault on plastic ...

Turtles — formally known as chelonians ... Proxies using fossil pollens and the teeth of eel-like vertebrates called conodonts are the traditional methods of measuring deep burials, Dr ...