Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before modern turtles evolved into the familiar forms we recognize today, some ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The leatherback sea turtle offers a rare look into ...

Two of the most common species in New Hampshire go back about 200 million years, and they've hardly changed at all. This archive edition of Something Wild is from July 2019. We rebroadcast this ...

The discovery of a new marine turtle species, Craspedochelys renzi, has provided valuable insights into the marine ecosystems of the Early Cretaceous period. Paleontologists studying this extinct ...

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