Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Dinosaur turtles!

1,800 Jurassic turtle skeletons were found in mass grave in Xingjiang, China earlier this week. It is said that they were swept in this grave over a million years ago. They are said to have died from natural causes because they were in a dry period for way to long and needed water in order to live. They would gather in the remaining waterholes and wait for the rain to come but it didn’t come. After the rain finally hit it created a long mud river and washed the corpses away. At the grave site there is about 36 turtle’s square mile and each turtle is about 8 inches long. These turtles will open up new research for the paleontologists.
http://news.yahoo.com/jurassic-turtle-graveyard-found-china-133540907.html;_ylt=AoSSAFKChKw6I.O6Fuqua1is0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTUzb3BnNG92BGNjb2RlA2dtcHRvcDEwMDBwb29sd2lraXVwcmVzdARtaXQDTmV3cyBGb3IgWW91IDUgU3RvcmllcwRwa2cDMTQ4YjEzMmEtMjdkMy0zMTY5LWEyZTktOGRiZWM2NGFmMDRiBHBvcwMxMQRzZWMDbmV3c19mb3JfeW91BHZlcgNjOWNjNjkwMC0yMzYyLTExZTItYmRiYi0yOTA4ODMzYjBhY2E-;_ylv=3

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