“As soon as those two halves came together, like puzzle pieces, you knew it,” said Ted Daeschler, PhD, associate curator of vertebrate zoology and vice president for collections at the Academy of ...
A 240-million-year-old ancestor of today's turtles also has the unfortunate honour of being one of the oldest known cancer cases ever found. Pappochelys rosinae is a four-legged animal that looked a ...