Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 month 1 week (www.nature.com)

I particularly like the artist's depiction of the turtle ancestors. Even if, like most so many such drawings, it later proves to be inaccurate, it is a nice, vivid rendering. I particularly like that it shows the turtles as flexible, able to bend their bodies and necks. If I had to guess how this picture would turn out to be inaccurate, I'd say it's the heads. They're drawn with modern, meant-to-be-pulled-in turtle heads.

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