New Study Finds Highly Modified Abdominal Muscular Sling in Turtles (IMAGE)

University of the Witwatersrand

New Study Finds Highly Modified Abdominal Muscular Sling in Turtles

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A new study shows that while the early (260 myr) proto turtle, Eunotosaurus africanus from South Africa, only had the beginnings of a turtle shell, it already had the highly modified abdominal muscular sling that is used to breathe in modern turtles, including Pelusios niger on the right.

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Luke Norton

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