A Very Round Turtle (IMAGE)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

A Very Round Turtle

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The round shape of a new species of fossil turtle found in Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia may have warmed readily in the sun.

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Liz Bradford

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