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11-year-old goes rock hunting — then he finds a 48-million-year-old turtle

Kids’ summer adventures often end in finding cool rocks. But 11-year-old Touren Pope found a prehistoric turtle. Back in July ...

11-Year-Old Discovers 48-Million-Year-Old Fossil While Searching for Rocks with His Grandparents

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

11-Year-Old Rock Hunter Makes 48-Million-Year-Old Discovery

Last year, Touren Pope made the discovery of a lifetime—and he’s not even a teenager yet. The 11-year-old Nevada native was ...
Mongabay

Spotted softshell turtle release boosts reptile conservation in Vietnam

The rewilding of 50 captive-bred spotted softshell turtles has sparked hope among conservationists for the future of the rare and threatened species in Vietnam, a country where softshell turtles are ...
Cowboy State Daily

11-Year-Old Finds 48-Million-Year-Old Turtle Shell in Southwest Wyoming

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 ...
FOX13 Memphis

41 endangered softshell turtle hatchlings welcomed at San Diego Zoo

According to a news release from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, the zoo welcomed 41 Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle hatchlings over the summer. SDZWA said that the zoo has become the first ...
AOL

Watch This Monster Turtle Invade a Man’s Pond and Gobble Up His Fish

What Kind of Turtle Is in the Video? In his pond, Zak notices his fish are acting strange. That’s when he discovers a softshell turtle has taken up residence. The reptile seems to have come from a ...
OPB

After years of waiting, rare turtles have bred 41 hatchlings at the San Diego Zoo

Over the summer, staff at the zoo welcomed 41 hatchlings from the Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle species, which is native to South Asia. It makes the zoo the first accredited organization in ...