Ancient turtle migrated from Asia to America over a tropical Arctic
Sunday, February 1, 2009 - 14:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In Arctic Canada, a team of geologists from the University of Rochester has discovered a surprise fossil: a tropical, freshwater, Asian turtle. The find strongly suggests that animals migrated from Asia to North America not around Alaska, as once thought, but directly across a freshwater sea floating atop the warm, salty Arctic Ocean.