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50-Million-Year-Old Sea Turtle Unearthed in Syria Stuns Paleontologists


Scientists discovered Syriemys lelunensis, a 50-million-year-old fossil sea turtle from Syria. Near the city of Afrin in Syria, an international group of scientists, including members of the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, has identified

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