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How the turtle got its shell: Amazing fossils are solving the mystery

How the turtle got its shell: Amazing fossils are solving the mystery

29 April 2020

For years, the oldest turtle fossils we could find had fully formed shells. Now, more primitive fossils are revealing the strange tale of how turtle shells evolved

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