Learn how Neanderthals in central Europe hunted pond turtles and likely reused their shells as containers or scooping tools.

The study also floated the possibility that the turtles had been hunted for “their taste or for an assumed medicinal value.” ...

While living in central Europe roughly 125,000 years ago, Neanderthals regularly hunted European pond turtles. But they ...

Cavemen hunted turtles — but not for food, suggests new research. Shells of reptiles caught by children may have been used as ...

Turtle shell fragments, which date back up to 50,000 years ago, were discovered at an archaeological site in Germany, posing questions about their origins, officials said. Photo from the State Office ...

This is what it might have looked like around 125,000 years ago: a European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) next to the foot of a European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus). Credit: ...

A study of the remains of a European pond turtle discovered at a burial site in Poland provides new insights into Wielbark culture burial custom The remains of a European pond turtle found in an ...

For only the third time in decades, a rare turtle was spotted in a Belarusian nature reserve. Belarus Today reported that a European pond turtle was found in the Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve, which ...