Palaeontologists have got a clearer picture of where turtles fit in the animal kingdom, thanks to analysis of a southern ...

For decades, turtles have stumped scientists trying to place the shelled reptiles on the evolutionary tree. Now, a new study ...

An ancient reptile once thought to be an early turtle ancestor actually belonged to an entirely different group.

Learn how a 260-million-year-old Permian reptile, once thought to explain turtle evolution, turned out to belong to a different lineage, reshaping the story of turtle origins in the Triassic Period.

Led by palaeontologist Dr Stephan Spiekman, a new Emmy Noether Research Group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) ...

Sometime between 5.5 and 5.6 million years ago, two shell crushers squared off in the languid currents of an ancient Florida ...