| Tropical Turtle Fossil Found in Arctic(LiveScience StaffLiveScience.com Livescience Stafflivescience.com 2009-02-02 00:38) | | The last place scientists expected to find the fossil of a freshwater, tropical turtle was in the Arctic. But they did. The discovery, detailed today in the journal Geology, suggests animals migrated from Asia to North America not around Alaska, as once... |
| First Known Turtle Had Shell Shortcomings(Jeanna BrynerSenior WriterLiveScience.com jeanna Brynersenior Writerlivescience.com 2008-11-27 00:44) | | 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. The turtle had a belly shell, but its back was basically bare of armor. Last week, a team of scie... |
| Paleontologists sift Utah soil for plant fossils(By MIKE STARK, Associated Press Writer Mike Stark, Associated Press Writer 2008-11-16 17:22) | | SALT LAKE CITY – Paleontologists are sifting through the soil of an excavated lot in search of ancient plants, the only ones from the early Jurassic period found so far in western North America. The flora fossils date back 198 million years, Utah's... |
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