Jurassic turtle graveyard found in China
By Megan Gannon
Published November 01, 2012
LiveScience
Scientists say that they have found a grave site filled with the fossils of turtles from the Jurassic time period. The scientists think that the turtles were living in a very dry time and gathered in a water hole. Then the water hole might have dried up and the turtles may have died. Then the rain might have come in a flash flood and covered the turtle bodies in mud, fossilizing them over time. I think that this article is important because we can learn more about the Jurassic time period from these turtles'. We can even maybe someday learn all of the animals that lived in the Jurassic time period. Just maybe we can learn how to time travel from thesse turtles. Maybe...
"This site has probably more than doubled the known number of individual turtles from the Jurassic," said University of Tübingen turtle expert Walter Joyce. "Some of the shells were stacked up on top of one another in the rock." (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
I vote for this one.
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