A Fossil More Amazing than Ida

More incredible finds from the Messel Pit:

"These 49 million-year-old freshwater turtle fossils are believed to have died of poisoning during copulation."

(Photograph: Jonathan Blair/Corbis, published at The Guardian Online.)

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