Eleven-year-old Touren Pope was hunting for rocks in southwest Wyoming when he came across the fossil of a soft-shelled ...

Casper, Wyo. - As kids we often dreamed about dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, but one kid has made those dreams ...

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 ...

The young boy’s astonishing find of a near 50 million year old fossilised turtle shell marked a once-in-a-lifetime discovery and huge celebrations for palaeontologists.

One of the world’s largest and least studied freshwater turtles has been found in Cambodia’s Mekong River, raising hopes that the threatened species can be saved from extinction.