New thick-shelled turtle species lived with world's biggest snake

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 16:56 in Biology & Nature

The discovery of a new fossil turtle species in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine by researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and the Florida Museum of Natural History helps to explain the origin of one of the most biodiverse groups of turtles in South America.

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