A turtle with pig-like nose was recently discovered by scientists at the Natural History Museum of Utah.
The University of Utah has announced the discovery of a strange pig-snouted turtle that lived alongside tyrannosaurs and duck-billed dinosaurs millions of years ago.
A team from the Natural History Museum of Utah discovered fossils of the strange-looking turtle in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah.
Joshua Lively of the University of Texas at Austin called it one of the weirdest turtles that ever lived. He studied the fossils for his master's thesis.
The 2-foot-long turtle lived about 76 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period when southern Utah was a wet, hot climate with rivers and bayous.
Researchers say its pig-like nose with two nostrils makes it unlike any other turtle ever found. The findings were published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.