Science news articles about 'turtle shells'

... close to the ground with little exposure to danger," he said. Other arguments favor the notion that turtle shells evolved as extensions of the reptile's backbones and ribs, Rieppel said, but the ...

... the bony exterior that is an integral part of the reptile's anatomy, scientists say. The turtle's shell is unique, but the evolution of the structure has been a mystery. Now Japanese scientists have ...

... temperature, depth, location and time of day. The turtles are now about 30 miles off North ... juvenile loggerheads and attached the data loggers to the turtles' shells. The instruments log and store data ...

Archaeologists say they have uncovered the 12,000-year-old grave of a shaman in Israel. The "witch doctor" had been buried with a human foot, 50 turtle shells, and other artifacts.

... journal Geology. The mix of shark bones and teeth, turtle shells three times the size of today's ... made studies of the bone bed's extinct sea turtles, sharks, marine mammals and seabirds. Lipps is a ...

... of the Rockies paleontologist John R. Horner that there was an outer keratinous sheathing on it as found in modern turtle shells and bird beaks. In his new reconstruction, Parsons suggests that ...