Ancient mother spawns new insight on reptile reproduction

Sunday, September 7, 2008 - 11:49 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A 75-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant turtle and a nest of fossilised eggs that were discovered in the badlands of southeastern Alberta by scientists and staff from the University of Calgary and the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology are yielding new ideas on the evolution of egg-laying and reproduction in turtles and tortoises...

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