Pig-Snouted Turtle From Dinosaur Era Discovered in Utah
October 29, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY — A strange pig-snouted turtle that lived alongside tyrannosaurs and duck-billed dinosaurs has been discovered in Utah.
The University of Utah announced the finding in a news release Wednesday. A team from the Natural History Museum of Utah discovered fossils of strange-looking turtle in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah.
Joshua Lively of the University of Texas at Austin called it one of the weirdest turtles that ever lived. He studied the fossils for his master’s thesis.
The New York Times, Oct. 21, 2015
Forbes, Oct. 22, 2015
National Geographic, Oct.23, 2015
CNN, Oct. 23, 2015
Huffington Post, Oct. 23, 2015
Featuring: Joshua Lively, Ph.D. student, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
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