It turns out, this fossil plant is really a fossil baby turtle dicyt.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dicyt.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Researchers nicknamed the fossil “Turtwig” after a Pokemon that’s half-turtle, half-plant. From the 1950s to the 1970s, a Colombian priest named Padre Gustavo Huertas collected rocks and fossils near a town called Villa de Levya. Two of the specimens he found were small, round rocks patterned with
Unexpected Discovery: Fossil Initially Thought to be a Plant Turns Out to be Fossilized Baby Turtle vervetimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vervetimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A new study re-examined these “plant” fossils from the mid-20th century and found that they weren’t plants at all: they were the fossilized remains of baby turtles.