Uncovering the truth behind a giant turtle shell discovery

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

11-Year-Old Discovers 48-Million-Year-Old Fossil While Searching for Rocks with His Grandparents

Last year, the 11-year-old was hunting for rocks with his grandparents, Patti and Tom Patterson, on the Bureau of Land ...

The Truth About What’s Inside a Turtle Shell

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or ...

11-year-old finds 48-million-year-old turtle fossil while rock hunting

CASPER, Wyo. (WKRC) - An 11-year-old boy discovered a nearly complete fossilized turtle during a rock-hunting trip in southwest Wyoming, officials with Bureau of Land Management said. Touren Pope was ...
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11-year-old goes rock hunting — then he finds a 48-million-year-old turtle

Kids’ summer adventures often end in finding cool rocks. But 11-year-old Touren Pope found a prehistoric turtle. Back in July, the young boy was on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public land in ...
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11-Year-Old Finds 48-Million-Year-Old Turtle Shell in Southwest Wyoming

Touren Pope was rockhounding in the Greater Green River Basin when he found a remarkable foot-long fossil. It turned out to be the shell of a ...
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32-million-year-old turtle shell found on Alabama's Gulf Coast leads to discovery of new species

For years, the Coleman family's fishing trips on the Alabama Gulf Coast were routine. But in 2021, their outing near a riverbank led to an odd find: the shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea ...