June 2012 • Darwin, Then and Now

Fossilized Mating Turtles

by Richard William Nelson | Jun 26, 2012

Clues from fossilized mating turtles (pictured left) point to an enormous and sudden geological event. In last week’s edition of Biology Letters published by the Royal Society, Walter Joyce (pictured right) of Geosciences at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

The letter, entitled “Caught in the act: the first record of copulating fossil vertebrates,” updates information on the fossilized turtles discovered 30 years ago.

ABC News, BBC News, National Geographic, New York Daily News, MSNBC, FOX News, and Nature and Science journals featured the story, an unprecedented finding.

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