Turtle Discovery: Researchers At Denver Museum Of Nature & Science Unearth Prehistoric Species

By Audra Streetman, CBS Denver:

DENVER (CBS4) – Researchers at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science helped uncover a new, prehistoric turtle species. Dr. Tyler Lyson and Dr. David W. Krause are among the authors published Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science.

The researchers made the discovery based on a nearly complete skeleton recovered from the Maevarano Formation in northwestern Madagascar. The new species of pelomedusoid turtle is named Sahonachelys mailakavava.

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