Archive for November 29th, 2008

Recently scientists found a fossil of an ancient turtle in China. They are using it to try to figure out how the first turtles grew shells. This is a picture of what the first turtles with shells might have looked like.

These turtles have the beginnings of the first shells.

Click here to read the original article, from National Geographic. The name of the species is Odontochelys semitestacea.

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