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Turtles don’t make anything easy, but a new study by Florida Museum's Natasha Vitek shows how scientists can use animals’ physical features to make connections between a modern species and its fossilized relatives, even if they look strikingly different. #turtles #fossils #reseach Physical Features, Decoding, Research Projects, New Things To Learn, Endeavor, Scientists, Fossils, Turtles, The Help

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Turtle shells help decode complex links between modern, fossil species

Imagine that Labradors and golden retrievers died out a million years ago, leaving only fossilized skeletons behind. Without the help of DNA, how could we determine that a fossi…
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Turtles don’t make anything easy, but a new study by Florida Museum's Natasha Vitek shows how scientists can use animals’ physical features to make connections between a modern species and its fossilized relatives, even if they look strikingly different. #turtles #fossils #reseach

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Turtles don’t make anything easy, but a new study by Florida Museum's Natasha Vitek shows how scientists can use animals’ physical features to make connections between a modern species and its fossilized relatives, even if they look strikingly different. #turtles #fossils #reseach

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