The two partial limb fossils from the ancient sea turtle Atlantocheyls mortoni fit together perfectly, leaving little room for doubt that they are from the same bone. The distal half (shown on the ...

Now that paleontologists have assembled a complete humerus bone from the sea turtle Atlantocheyls mortoni, they have more information about the species and its overall size. Based on the complete limb ...

At first, Gregory Harpel thought the dark-brown object he found was just a stone. But it was oddly placed, resting in an isolated spot on a grassy embankment along a creek in Monmouth County, N.J. A ...

At first, Gregory Harpel thought the dark-brown object he found was just a stone. But it was oddly placed, resting in an isolated spot on a grassy embankment along a creek in Monmouth County, N.J. A ...

“As soon as those two halves came together, like puzzle pieces, you knew it,” said Ted Daeschler, PhD, associate curator of vertebrate zoology and vice president for collections at the Academy of ...

In the 1840s, scientists found remains of a yet-discovered giant sea turtle. The broken arm bone, or humerus, unearthed in the dunes of Monmouth County, New Jersey, helped scientists confirm the ...

Gregory Harper, an amateur paleontologist in the state of New Jersey in the United States, discovered a fossil that seems to be a sea turtle,University of Drexel Philadelphia Academy of Natural ...

Two fossils of sea turtles found 160 years apart are pieces of the same animal, researchers said. Atlantochelys mortoni is an ancient species of sea turtle. Very little is known about the animal as ...

An amateur palaeontologist discovered the 'new' fossil, which is half of a humerus, in Monmouth County, New Jersey in 2012 It matched the other half of a fossil that was discovered 162 years ...

100-lb Loggerhead Sea Turtle rescued by Texas State Aquarium near Cole Park Pier Broken humerus bones in front left flipper, and fractures to the shell Will be a few months of recovery at Texas State ...

At first, Gregory Harpel thought the dark-brown object he found was just a stone. But it was oddly placed, resting in an isolated spot on a grassy embankment along a creek in Monmouth County, N.J. A ...

A broken fossil turtle bone discovered by an amateur paleontologist in 2012 turned out to be the missing half of a bone first described in 1849. The surprising puzzle discovery has led paleontologists ...