This video is about a loggerhead sea turtle hatchling of today, getting from the nest to the sea in Kyparissia Bay, Greece.
From the Limburgs Dagblad daily in The Netherlands:
30 June 2007This turtle is from the late Cretaceous.Maastricht - From Monday till 22 July, in the Natuurhistorisch Museum (NHM) in Maastricht, people will be able to see every day how a fossil giant marine turtle will be extracted from a limestone rock, 66 million years old.
In the museum, a so called ‘PadLab’ was made, giving visitors the chance to see the extraction work from a close distance.
A primitive protostegid from [Cretaceous] Australia and early sea turtle evolution: here.
First fossil gravid turtle provides insight into the evolution of reproductive traits in turtles: here. And here.
Video of Cretaceous marine reptiles here.
