Fossil of tortoise before shell

[Cowboy_Ken]

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7662850

 

[dmmj]

So funny looking lizards then?

 

[voodoochild]

I was trying to imagine turtle evolution just the other day.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Pappochelys is Greek for grandfather turtle and seems to be a 'missing link' between the earlier, lizard-like Eunotosaurus and the much more turtle like Odontochelys.
@Grandpa Turtle 144
240 million years old?

 

[Grandpa Turtle 144]

Now I know where I came from

 

[Heardofturtles]

So funny looking lizards then?

Not really. Lizards date back to the Jurassic, later than this by about 40 my.

 

[Grandpa Turtle 144]

Pappochelys is Greek for grandfather turtle and seems to be a 'missing link' between the earlier, lizard-like Eunotosaurus and the much more turtle like Odontochelys.
@Grandpa Turtle 144
240 million years old?

But Friday is my birthday and I feel I will be half that old

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

But Friday is my birthday and I feel I will be half that old

Feeling and being are two different things so I hear.

 

[Grandpa Turtle 144]

Feeling and being are two different things so I hear.

I hope your right but you don't drink " BUD " but I still hope your right

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

Unless I'm somewhere its prohibited.

 

[Grandpa Turtle 144]

But Fossils drink "Bud "

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

But Fossils drink "Bud "

Simply because they're too old to know any better.

 

[Grandpa Turtle 144]

Simply because they're too old to know any better.

True but someday you'll be old !

 

[Grandpa Turtle 144]

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

True but someday you'll be old !

This'll help you there, I've a grandson that's 13.

 

[Grandpa Turtle 144]

This'll help you there, I've a grandson that's 13.

My grand son is 16 years old see I'm still the fossil and 1955 isn't a tire size. And 3ex wives I'm getting OLD !

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

And 3ex wives I'm getting OLD !

Wow, and you're slipping. We've had this discussion before. If memory serves me right?