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This 50-Million-Year-Old Fossil Sat in a Drawer—Now It’s Rewriting Turtle Evolution

Scientists have identified a 50-million-year-old fossil sea turtle in northern Syria, marking the country’s first formally described fossil vertebrate species. The discovery, detailed inPapers in ...

Why the most endangered sea turtles in the world are getting stranded very far from home

An endangered sea turtle named Lucky washed up in Nova Scotia last year. Scientists are trying to solve the mystery of why ...
Phys.org

Turtle genome provides new clues on the evolution of vertebrates

Scientists from the UAB and Iowa State University have generated the genome assemblies of two hidden-neck turtles. The results, which revealed a new three-dimensional structure of the genome within ...
insider.si.edu

Morphology and evolution of turtles : proceedings of the Gaffney Turtle Symposium (2009) in honor of Eugene S. Gaffney / edited by Donald B. Brinkman, Patricia Holroyd, James D ...

Eugene S. Gaffney : a professional biography and bibliography / Robert L. Carroll -- Autobiography (through May 2009) / Eugene S. Gaffney -- Problems of the ancestry of turtles / Robert L. Carroll -- ...
Opinion

Celebrate sea turtle conservation successes, but don't stop the fight | Opinion

After decades of protection, green sea turtles are rebounding and no longer classified as endangered on the global Red List of Threatened Species.