Fossil turtle from Colombia round like car tire
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - 16:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Paleontologist Carlos Jaramillo's group at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and colleagues at North Carolina State University and the Florida Museum of Natural History discovered a new species of fossil turtle that lived 60 million years ago in what is now northwestern South America. The team's findings were published in the Journal of Paleontology.