Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (ICRA_Arts / SWNS) A giant turtle the size of a great white shark roamed the oceans around 80 million years ago, say scientists.

Paleontologists have discovered the fossil remains of one of the largest turtles that ever lived. Measuring about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, it roamed the seas of Europe during the age of the ...

A turtle the size of a small car once roamed what is now South America 60 million years ago, suggests its fossilized remains. Discovered in a coal mine in Colombia in 2005, the turtle was given the ...

Researchers have unearthed the remains of a new species of gigantic marine turtle in northern Spain. Weighing about two tons and measuring 12 feet long, the prehistoric creature is the largest of its ...

Researchers from the University of Florida in conjunction with scientists from North Carolina State University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and the Florida Museum of Natural ...

Picture a turtle the size of a Smart car, with a shell large enough to double as a children's pool. Paleontologists from North Carolina State University have found just such a specimen – the ...

A group of adorable baby turtles - some no bigger than a 50-cent coin - have passed their first official health checks at an Australian zoo. The pint-sized hatchlings, which are part of Aussie Ark's ...

A giant turtle the size of a great white shark roamed the oceans around 80 million years ago, say scientists. It was one of the largest that ever lived - measuring more than twelve feet long and ...