Researchers Baffled After Mistaking Young Turtle Shells to be Oval-Shaped Plant Fossils, Bones Looked Like Plant Veins A ...

Unlike most turtles, whose shells are made of expanded and fused bones that form a relatively solid dome, widely spaced bones that looked more like the rafters of a roof held up Protostega's ...

Chia then spent months in rehabilitation at the South Carolina Aquarium Sea Turtle Care Center, recovering from a constricted right front flipper that caused necrotic tissue and exposing bone. The ...