Fossil Thought for Years to be a Plant is Really a Baby Turtle–Now Nicknamed after Pokemon Character

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A fossil thought for years to be a plant turns out to be a baby turtle—and surprised researchers have nicknamed it “Turtwig” after a Pokemon character that is half-turtle, half-plant. From the 1950s to the 1970s, a priest named Padre Gustavo Huertas collected rocks and fossils near a town called Villa de Levya in Colombia. […]

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