Professor at the University of Rosario (Universidad del Rosario) Edwin Cadena works at the laboratory, in Bogota, Colombia, in this picture taken on 2023. Edwin Cadena/via REUTERS Remnants of DNA have been discovered in fossilized remains dating to 6 million years ago of a sea turtle closely related to today's Kemp's ridley and olive ridley turtles, marking one of the rare times genetic material has been identified in such ancient fossils of a vertebrate, researchers said on Thursday. The researchers said some bone cells, called osteocytes, were exquisitely preserved in the fossil, which was excavated along Panama's Caribbean coast in 2015.

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