Meet 'Turtwig,' an ancient turtle species once thought to be a plant - Crossroads Today

(CNN) — Ancient plant fossils that puzzled scientists have turned out not to be plants after all, new research has revealed.

Instead, the small round shapes bearing a leaflike pattern were once the shells of baby turtles that lived during the time of dinosaurs. Scientists have nicknamed the turtle species “Turtwig,” after a Pokémon character that is half-turtle, half-plant.

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