Two ancient plant fossils collected by a Colombian priest more than 50 years ago are actually rare hatchling turtles from the age of the dinosaurs, a new study has found.
Padre Gustavo Huertas collected the leaf-shaped fossils near the town of Villa de Leyva between the 1950s and 1970s and later identified them as extinct plants. But the authors of a new study, published Dec. 7 in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica, have now revealed they aren't leaves at all — they're tiny turtle shells.
