image: Eastern box turtles display a dizzying amount of variation, both in modern and fossil specimens. But plotting shell shape reveals patterns and captures aspects like curvature -- things that ...

She used eastern box turtles, Terrapene carolina-- a species that comes in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colors -- to make links between the rich variation in modern specimens and their fossil ...

Although Eorhynchochelys' long-tailed body did have the "Frisbee shape" of today's turtles, its spine and ribs still hadn't joined together to form a single shell Adrienne Stroup, Field Museum 2 / 3 ...

A 260 million-year-old fossil has been determined to be the oldest ancestor of turtles found to date, revealing something about the reptile's mysterious past.

It’s night, on a tropical beach, and a 300-pound green turtle is hauling herself up a beach. When she passes the high-tide line, she starts scooping sand away with her hind flippers, creating a ...

Fossil turtle didn't have a shell yet, but had the first toothless turtle beak. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 08 / 180822131011.htm ...

The invention of the atom bomb has shaped both history and ecosystems across the globe. Its far-reaching impacts have even led scientists to consider using the signature of nuclear weapons to mark ...

New Shape-Shifting Robot Turtle Can Navigate Land and ... When ART needs to morph from turtle to tortoise mode or vice ... while the robot turtle’s lightweight 3D printed shell gives it buoyancy.