Traces of DNA Found in 6-Million-Year-Old Turtle Shell

The remains of a turtle shell recently found on Panama’s Caribbean coast represent the oldest fossil evidence of these turtles ever found. The discovery of the fossil indicates that this turtle lived approximately 6 million years ago.

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