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[[Image:Turtles-20080827_Canada_Fossil of Ancient Pregnant Turtle Discovered.jpg|thumb|right|'''Features of the five crushed eggs discovered inside the fossil turtle's body cavity suggested the female turtle would have laid them in a matter of days.''' Credit: Darla Zelenitsky, University of Calgary.]]
 
[[Image:Turtles-20080827_Canada_Fossil of Ancient Pregnant Turtle Discovered.jpg|thumb|right|'''Features of the five crushed eggs discovered inside the fossil turtle's body cavity suggested the female turtle would have laid them in a matter of days.''' Credit: Darla Zelenitsky, University of Calgary.]]
 
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Fossil of Ancient Pregnant Turtle Discovered

Features of the five crushed eggs discovered inside the fossil turtle's body cavity suggested the female turtle would have laid them in a matter of days. Credit: Darla Zelenitsky, University of Calgary.

2008.08.27 - Canada

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A turtle that toddled alongside the dinosaurs died just days before laying a clutch of eggs.
Scientists from the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Canada discovered the turtle in 1999 in a mud-filled channel in the badlands of southeastern Alberta. Then, in 2005, University of Calgary scientists found a nest of 26 eggs laid by another female of the same species in the same region.
The pregnant turtle represents the first fossil turtle to be unearthed with eggs still inside the body cavity, the scientists say.

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