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