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Palaeontologists find 47 million year-old turtles caught in final ‘embrace’

German palaeontologists have dug up the remains of nine turtle pairs that died while mating some 47 million years ago, sinking into poisonous waters while locked in a final embrace, a report said Wednesday. The find represents the first-ever fossil record of copulating vertebrates (animals with a backbone), said a…