Misidentified Fossil Reveals Baby Turtle, Dubbed ‘Turtwig’, Discovered In Colombia

The fossil in question. For several years 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. PHOTO BY FABIANY HERRERA/SWNS 

A fossil thought for years to be a plant was really a baby turtle.

Now, researchers have nicknamed it “Turtwig” after a Pokemon character that’s half-turtle, half-plant.