Posted on 02/13/2020 10:53:48 AM PST by C19fan
An 8-million-year-old turtle shell unearthed in Venezuela measures nearly 8 feet (2.4 meters) long, making it the largest complete turtle shell known to science, a new study reported.
This shell belonged to an extinct beast called Stupendemys geographicus, which lived in northern South America during the Miocene epoch, which lasted from 12 million to 5 million years ago.
S. geographicus weighed an estimated 2,500 lbs. (1,145 kilograms), almost 100 times the size of its closest living relative, the Amazon river turtle (Peltocephalus dumerilianus), and twice the size of the largest living turtle, the marine leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea), the researchers wrote in the study.
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Michael Moore?
More like too tall Jones, except for the weight which is more akin to Michael Moore. 8>)
He’ll save you from brain eating aliens!!
He is filled with turtle meat. . .
So that is where the Viking Kitty have been hiding!
30 Descendants Of 2 Extinct Tortoise Species Found In Galápagos
"Conservationists working around the largest volcano on the Galápagos Islands say they have found 30 giant tortoises partially descended from two extinct species, including that of the famed Lonesome George."
(ahem)Lonesome George
If I had to swim across a creek with snapping turtles that big I’d be worried about more than just my ding-a-ling.
It’s turtles all the way down.
The little bugger! :)
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“...the largest complete turtle shell known to science...”
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