Re: _Odontochelys semitestacea_ comes out of its shell

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

> Published online 26 November 2008 | Nature |  doi:10.1038/news.2008.1260 
> How the turtle got its shell
> Chinese  fossil forces palaeontologists forced to rethink turtle origins.
> Natasha  Gilbert 

Ooh - she card read good.

> The discovery, in China, of the oldest known turtle fossil has turned  
> palaeontologists' understanding of the species' origin and ecology on its
> head...

You palaeontologists are as bad as us archaeologists - just *one* isolated find 
and suddenly entire 
sweeping sagas are based on it.

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Dann Pigdon
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