Turtle destroyer? Hemis / Alamy
It brings a whole new meaning to the word shellshock. A Jurassic turtle seems to have been squashed flat before it was fossilised – possibly because a giant dinosaur trod on it.
The marine turtle fossil was found in 2007 in Switzerland, as part of a project to study fossils that had been revealed by the construction of a highway. It dates from about 155 million years ago in the late Jurassic period. The dinosaurs were at their height then, and huge, long-necked sauropod dinosaurs dominated the land.
