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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Touren Pope took a few days off school the second week of February, but this was not just some regular family vacation.

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

Everything about the discovery of a fossilized leatherback sea turtle in Alabama four years ago is fascinating. The findings of the never-before studied species were published in a study Friday, ...