A few days ago, a gigantic turtle fossil was found. It is said to be around 60 million years old!
The fossils show that the turtles head alone was bigger than a regular human head, it was around an amazing 24cm! And its shell was 172cm long, about the average height of a grown man. It is sa8id to have had really powerful jaws.
"We had recovered smaller turtle specimens," said Edwin Cadena from North Carolina State University (who discovered the fossil in Colombia). "But... I realised that this particular turtle was the biggest anyone had found in this area for this time period."
Smaller turtles did exist at the same time as dinosaurs, but this giant version appeared five million years after dinosaurs had vanished from Earth.
Would you like to have met this amazing creature? Tell me by posting a comment!
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