Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an apparently fate-tempting plea. "I kept joking through that whole class, ...

An 11-year-old rock hunter has uncovered an almost complete turtle shell dating to roughly 48 million years ago. That intact shell secured a rare glimpse into a vanished river world before weather ...

JACKSONVILLE — A 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle fossil, discovered by an Alabama family on a fishing trip, has provided groundbreaking insights thanks to research conducted in part by Dr.

Touren Pope took a few days off school the second week of February, but this was not just some regular family vacation.

CASPER, Wyo. (WKRC) - An 11-year-old boy discovered a nearly complete fossilized turtle during a rock-hunting trip in southwest Wyoming, officials with Bureau of Land Management said. Touren Pope was ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The Alabama Gulf Coast touts some of the country’s most beautiful beaches. But did you know much of the state used to be completely underwater? McWane Science Center recently ...

A family from Mobile found the fossil of a newly discovered genus of the endangered leatherback sea turtle along a riverbank in south Alabama. And thanks to a series of events that unfolded over the ...

MOBILE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A family fishing trip in south Alabama led to the remarkable discovery of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle fossil, now identified as a new genus and species ...