The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) reported that a three-acre oyster reef has taken shape in the San Carlos ...

A museum in Richmond, Queensland, Australia has unveiled a 100-million-year-old fossil pearl, a rare find from an ancient ...

A new fossil discovered by researchers might leave fans of turtles a little shell-shocked. A study published in the journal Nature finds a fossil from a turtle roaming Earth 228 million years ago ...

Shell CEO Wael Sawan focused comments on that longer-term 2050 goal instead of nearer-term objectives. That's despite a 2021 Dutch court case that ordered Shell to reduce its greenhouse gas ...

Royal Dutch Shell buried a bombshell in its recently released 2013 annual report. Amid 200 pages of predictably and mind-numbingly dry text, the world’s seventh-largest oil company foreshadowed ...

The Shell petrol station in Ylöjärvi, Finland, has stopped selling fossil fuels. The former petrol station is being converted ...

The fossil shell of Hoplochelys, an extinct genus of aquatic turtle, one of several types of turtle shells collected from sites in Montana and Colorado. Rick Wicker/Denver Museum of Nature and Science ...

And, there's a new place to view fossils: In North Fort Myers, the 77-year-old Shell Factory & Nature Park is developing a fossil and gemstone museum, exhibiting collections on loan from some of ...

Interestingly, other early fossils of different turtle species had shells but no beaked jaws. The dawn beak turtle had a beak but no shell, but modern turtles have all of the above.

In other words, modern turtles – with a bony upper shell, carapace, and an under-shell linked together by a series of bridges – seem to just pop up in the fossil record more than 200m years ago.