Key Link in Turtle Evolution Discovered

Key Link in Turtle Evolution Discovered

This Ancient Creature Shows How the Turtle
Got Its Shell, Smithsonian, June 24, 2015
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/science-nature/ancient-creature-shows-how-turtle-got-its-shell-180955688/

How The Turtle Got Its Shell
All things Considered, June 24, 2015
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/24/416657576/how-the-turtle-got-its-shell

Key link in turtle evolution discovered
Phys.Org, June 24, 2015
http://phys.org/news/2015-06-key-link-turtle-evolution.html

The paper is:

Schoch, R. R., and H.-D. Sues, 2015, A Middle
Triassic stem-turtle and the evolution of the
turtle body plan. Nature, Published online 24 June 2015
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14472.html

Yours,

Paul H.