This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — until a changing planet proved too much for even the largest ...

Humongous Turtle Shell Unearthed. This shows an 8-million-year-old turtle shell that measured nearly 8 feet (2.4 meters) was ...

A dead reptile of its kind washed up on the shores of Dong Mo Lake in Vietnam, measuring 156 cm. long and weighing 93 kg. Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The ...

An illustrated reconstruction of Leviathanochelys aenigmatica. Credit: ICRA_Arts. (CN) — The largest living species of sea turtle, the leatherback, which can reach up to six feet long, would look tiny ...

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 ...

Alligator snapping turtles have a hard, armor-like shell and a sharp beak. A 100-year-old giant alligator snapping turtle is at large after mysteriously disappearing somewhere along Interstate 40 in ...

Humongous Turtle Shell Unearthed. This shows an 8-million-year-old turtle shell that measured nearly 8 feet (2.4 meters) was discovered in Venezuela. Christopher Schwarzenegger Hits the Red Carpet and ...