Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Traces of ancient DNA appear to have been found within the 6 ...

Turtle shell fragments, which date back up to 50,000 years ago, were discovered at an archaeological site in Germany, posing questions about their origins, officials said. Photo from the State Office ...

(CNN) — Ancient plant fossils that puzzled scientists have turned out not to be plants after all, new research has revealed. Instead, the small round shapes bearing a leaflike pattern were once the ...

The DNA comes from the remains of a turtle shell first uncovered in 2015 in the Chagres Formation on Panama’s Caribbean coast. It represents the oldest known fossil evidence of Lepidochelys turtles.

A team of paleontologists studying the fossilized shell of a sea turtle from the Miocene Epoch found something surprising and perhaps impossible: preserved bone cells that they believe may contain ...

Paleontologists discover possible DNA remains in fossil turtle that lived 6 million years ago in Panama, where continents collide. Currently, only seven species of sea turtles exist. Among them are ...

With four-foot-long jaws, an ancient reptile terrorized the seas even as Tyrannosaurus rex ruled the land. The great white shark of “Jaws” fame would probably have been but a tasty morsel for a giant, ...

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