Learn how researchers use archaeological techniques to show how sea turtle shells grow in layers that capture chemical clues ...
Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice ...
Sea turtle shells record life history layer by layer over many years, clearly revealing diet, stress, movement, and ocean ...
Researchers at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School have developed a method to read the chemical layers inside sea turtle shells like a biological stopwatch, reconstructing years of an animal’s ...
When a massive adult female Kemp's ridley sea turtle washed ashore on March 7 near Beach Pocket Park #3 in Galveston, she was ...
Turtles with shell-cracking jaws were far more likely to survive extinction due to their ability to be sustained on a restricted diet.
The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on ...
Turtles that crushed hard-shelled prey like clams and snails were reported to be more than five times more likely to survive ...
MARATHON, Fla. (AP) -- A dentist used denture repair adhesive to help mend an endangered green sea turtle's fractured shell in the Florida Keys. On Thursday, Fred Troxel examined Elena, a 40-pound ...
The sea creature arrived at San Diego's Birch Aquarium in 2014 Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor in Journalism.