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This 50-Million-Year-Old Fossil Sat in a Drawer—Now It's Rewriting Turtle Evolution
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This 50-Million-Year-Old Fossil Sat in a Drawer—Now It's Rewriting Turtle Evolution
Scientists have identified a 50-million-year-old fossil sea turtle in northern Syria, marking the country’s first formally described fossil vertebrate species. The discovery, detailed in Papers in Palaeontology on July 23, 2025, introduces Syriemys lelunensis—a previously unknown species that sheds new light on the origins and spread of ancient marine turtles. A Fossil Hidden In Plain Sight Back in 2010, a quarry explosion near Al-Zarefeh, close…
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