because the fossil was missing the typical marks on the outside of a turtle’s shell,” said study coauthor Cómbita-Romero in a statement. “It was a little bit concave, like a bowl.

because the fossil was missing the typical marks on the outside of a turtle’s shell,” Cómbita-Romero said in a statement. “It was a little bit concave, like a bowl. At that moment we ...

"When we saw the specimen for the first time I was astonished, because the fossil was missing the typical marks on the outside of a turtle's shell," says Cómbita-Romero. It was a little bit ...

To see if the fossils were really plants , a team of researchers re-examined them and discovered that the markings weren’t the veins of leaves after all, but the ribs of tiny turtles. Dr Edwin-Alberto ...

Huertas originally deemed the fossils to be specimens of the plant ... was indeed the case – and that bone was the shell of a tiny turtle. “They sent me the photos, and I said, ‘This ...

A 1-millimeter fish vertebra and a slightly longer, unidentified bone recently found at the Waco Mammoth National Monument will tell researchers more about the area’s ecosystem during the lives ...

This may sound a little sadistic, but no living turtles ... The chelonian-crunching method can also be applied to other turtle-rich fossil sites where shallow burial histories have been suspected ...

From what we would now recognize as a classic VMB, he also picked up a handful of bones and teeth from fish, turtles and crocodiles ... eyes scanning for the tiny fossils emerging from the ...

"I'd had my eye on this particular fossil, but it was ... and varies a lot in different turtles. "In our one, it had a peculiar thick shape with an extra little process sticking down, that told ...

A beautifully preserved shelled reptile recovered from a Bavarian limestone deposit helps tell the story of how turtles first took ... years have pulled complete fossils of everything from fish ...