Climate change is a threat to marine turtles that is expected to affect all of their life stages. To
guide future research, we conducted a review of the most recent literature on this topic …

Turtles (Testudinata) are the clade of amniotes characterized by a complete turtle shell. New
insights into the phylogeny of the group have revealed that a diverse assemblage of fossil …

Evolutionary transitions to marine habitats occurred frequently among Mesozoic reptiles.
Only one such clade survives to the present: sea turtles (Chelonioidea). Other marine turtles …

The turtle carapace, the top dorsal part of the shell, is a remarkable multi-scale dermal armor
that has evolved to withstand various types of high-stress events encountered in nature. This …

Abstract The Late Jurassic (Oxfordian to Tithonian) fossil record of Europe and South
America has yielded a particularly rich assemblage of aquatic pan-cryptodiran turtles that …

Among living turtles, highly terrestrial or highly aquatic modes of life are likely to have
developed from a plesiomorphic semi-aquatic one. A taxonomically comprehensive data set …

Chelonians are ectothermic, with an extensive fossil record preserved in diverse
palaeoenvironmental settings: consequently, they represent excellent models for …

Resolving the phylogeny of sea turtles is uniquely challenging given the high potential for
the unification of convergent lineages due to systematic homoplasy. Equivocal …

The origin and homology of the turtle shell is one of the most captivating topics in amniote
evolution. In this contribution, we present a new species of turtle from the Late Triassic of …

Abstract The Posidonienschiefer Formation of southern Germany has yielded an array of
incredible fossil vertebrates. One of the best represented clades therein is Teleosauroidea, a …