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March 14, 2018 12:00 pm PDT
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The century-long fight over how turtles evolved to have shells
Turtles were at the center of a hundred-year evolutionary controversy since the 1887 discovery of a Proganochelys fossil in Germany. AS PBS Eons explains, the question of how turtles got their shells led scientists "to rethink the entire history of reptile evolution." (more…)
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