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‘Missing link’ turtle was swimming with dinosaurs

timesonline.co.uk — A previously unknown species of primitive turtle made the move from land to water 164 million years ago, fossils found on the Isle of Skye indicate.

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  • inactive, on 11/19/2008, -0/+27Ok I'm on through a proxy now.
    I think the words "million years ago" and "evolution" were blocking my ability to read the article.
  • ExoBit, on 11/19/2008, -1/+18I like turtles.
  • inactive, on 11/19/2008, -1/+15I'm online from an elementary school in Alaska, I'm unable to access this article.
    Can someone summarize it for me?
  • kplo, on 04/01/2009, -1/+12It's turtles all the way down...
  • LiebeMachtFrei, on 11/19/2008, -4/+12Nice try, Satan.
  • serif69, on 11/19/2008, -0/+6A previously unknown species of primitive turtle made the move from land to water 164 million years ago, fossils found on the Isle of Skye indicate.
  • Rivetgeek, on 11/19/2008, -0/+4iseewutyoudidthere
  • dcmjzero, on 11/19/2008, -0/+4Hopefully that is a joke. Hopefully.
  • serif69, on 11/19/2008, -2/+5Heroes on the half shell
  • Icyfenix, on 11/19/2008, -0/+3The Isle of Skye?
    Are we looking for fossils in Japanese RPGs now?
  • WiretapStudios, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2Turtle Power!
  • Sphinxer, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1Oh yeah, they were even writing songs about Japanese RPGs in the 1870s.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skye_Boat_Song
  • BrandonLR, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1Not the most surprising Digg title, seeing as how turtles have been around long before the dinosaurs.

    Interesting article though!
  • Sphinxer, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1So Ninja turtles + story about evolution =... Mutant anime turtles?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQAQohS0On4
    God I hope not.
  • pickleprince, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skye
  • eimlauqons, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1 And who actually believes their latest attempt to prove the toe, this way, because they can not find any actual fossils?
  • Andrwmorph, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1That would be pretty tense. Swimming with dinosaurs.
  • bubba9999, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1GAMERA!
  • verycoolwinter, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1I thought the description said, "...on the Isle of Skype..."
  • big90burban, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1Well, this is all good and such, but I have a question... What happened to the rest of the turtles then? They found only 6... There had to be more... I think maybe they got trapped by something and crawled into the water trying to escape, or maybe it was a frozen lake or something in the winter and they fell through the ice and drowned. Isn't that a possibility?
  • lillylibertine, on 11/19/2008, -0/+0TMNT are obviously the missing link between these turtles and modern humans!

    Zap!

    my son is hip to the theory: http://www.entertonement.com/clips/13066/turtles/k ...
  • inactive, on 11/19/2008, -2/+1And now it's sleeping with the fishes...
  • ncc74656m, on 11/19/2008, -2/+1TURTLE!
  • absent14, on 11/19/2008, -2/+0I thought the missing turtle was on Entourage.
  • VarelseSoul, on 11/19/2008, -4/+1troll much?

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