• First Known Turtle Had Shell Shortcomings (LiveScience.com)

    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)LiveScience.com – A half-shell turtle species that swam in China’s coastal waters 220 million years ago is the oldest turtle known to date, a new analysis of fossils reveals.


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