Turtles nearly all the way down (and a few elephants too)

Down with turtles

The fabled dominance of the hare by the tortoise has an underground counterpart of sorts in a look at turtles and elephants in times gone by. The elephants came out on top in a 2014 study called “Between the feet of elephants: Turtles as a common element of the associated fauna of proboscideans”. But turtles hog all the attention in a new report called “100 million years of turtle paleoniche dynamics enable the prediction of latitudinal range shifts in a warming world”.

The two works serve as reminders that some old conjectures and beliefs really…