Posts Tagged ‘sea turtle’

WFS News: Researchers have retrieved original pigment, beta-keratin and muscle proteins from a 54-million-year-old sea turtle hatchling

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers from North Carolina State University, Lund University in Sweden and the University of Hyogo in Japan have retrieved original pigment, beta-keratin and muscle proteins from a 54 million-year-old sea turtle hatchling. The work adds to the growing body of evidence supporting persistence of original molecules over millions […]

WFS News: The first sea turtle??

Several 80-million-year-old fossils found in Alabama are from a species of sea turtle that is the oldest known member of the lineage that gave rise to all modern species of sea turtle, according to new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Researchers from the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biology worked […]