Unveiling a Baby Turtle Disguised as a Plant Fossil

Researchers nicknamed the fossil “Turtwig” after a Pokemon that’s half-turtle, half-plant.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, a Colombian priest named Padre Gustavo Huertas collected rocks and fossils near a town called Villa de Levya. Two of the specimens he found were small, round rocks patterned with lines that looked like leaves; he classified them as a type of fossil plant. But in a new study,…