You can find out where the majority of the Drumpf families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records. Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination. from the New York Passenger Lists.
Sea Turtle History. The oldest fossils of turtles were found in Germany and date back 215 million years, during the Triassic period. 1 They are among the oldest fossils of four-legged animals and one of the Earthâs most ancient creatures. These ancestral turtles had completely formed shells and lived on land, in marshes.
In China, Scientists Discover Oldest Turtle Fossil Ever Found. The turtle fossil, dubbed Odontochelys semistestacea, is the oldest ever found. It was unearthed last year in Chinaâs Guizhou province and described this week in the journal Nature. It predates the previous record-holder, the terrestrial turtle Proganochelys, by at least 10 million years. Odontochelys didnât look exactly like a modern turtle. Unlike modern turtles, which have beaked mouths and no teeth, Odontochelys had a long, pointed snout lined with teeth.