Reply #16: There's always one or two in the crowd. Turtles are older than most dinosaurs...

[Baclava]

...snakes, lizards and all them other guys.


220-million-year-old turtle leaves researchers shell shocked


OTTAWA - A research team's discovery of the world's oldest turtles has provided new insight into the evolution of the ancient creatures.



The Canadian Museum of Nature's Xiao-chun Wu, along with his team of researchers from Canada, China and the U.S., uncovered two well-preserved fossils of ancestral turtles that swam in the shallow ocean of present-day China 220 million years ago.

These are the oldest turtles ever found - even older than most dinosaurs.

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/story.html?id=a0370924-de8c-43ae-93f6-e06692b53627

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(edit) I, for one, welcome the return of our reptilian overlords.