Scientists Discover 240-Million-Year-Old ‘Pig-Turtle’ Creature in Africa—And They Say It Reshapes the Timeline of First Dinosaurs

Not every discovery story unfolds like an Indiana Jones action adventure. Sometimes a fossil can sit collecting dust for 63 years only to suddenly reemerge, and upend decades of so-called scientific truth. And it’s so much cooler when that fossil has the potential to rewrite the history of the dinosaurs. But this particular fossil was […]