Earliest Swimming Turtle Fossils Found -- New Species
Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 16:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Newly discovered fossils of the oldest known swimming turtles show the reptiles first took to water some 165 million years ago, researchers say.
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