Newly identified softshell turtle lived alongside T. rex and Triceratops

A newly described softshell turtle that lived in North Dakota 66.5 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period, just before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, is one of the earliest known species of the genus, according to new research shared in the journal Cretaceous Research.  An imagined scene from the end of the Cretaceous Period, more than 66 million years ago, has the  newly identified softshell turtle Hutchemys walkerorum dwelling alongside iconic species  from...