• China’s ancestral turtle sheds light on evolution (Reuters)

    Dino News 29.11.2008

    This handout image shows an artist's impression of an ancestral turtle from the Triassic Period found in Guizhou Province, China. A stunningly intact 220-million-year-old fossil found in southwestern China appears to have settled a long-simmering debate over reptile evolution: how did turtles get their shell?(AFP/HO/Marlene Donnelly)Reuters – Researchers in China have unearthed fossils of the most primitive turtle to date, a creature with teeth, a fully formed belly shell and a back shell that appeared to be just evolving.


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