Gastropod Fossil

66-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Remains of the Long-Vanished Tethys Sea

Archaeologists in Ankara, Turkey, have uncovered an ancient fossil from the Tethys Sea at Külhöyük, a 5,000-year-old Hattian and Hittite settlement in the capital’s Gölbaşı district. Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Ministry said the gastropod fossil is about 66 million...