[C19fan]

Not sure why people are calling this the largest turtle in history as Archelon, marine turtle from the Cretaceous, is estimated to have weight around 4,500 lbs.

[kaktuskid]

OMG it’s Gamera!

[Magnum44]

[Chauncey Gardiner]

That’s a lot of soup

[Telepathic Intruder]

Real live war turtles. I knew they had to exist.

[bigbob]

They should name it Mitch.

[\/\/ayne]

Gammra! Friend Of All Children!

[ShadowAce]

This can’t be the largest turtle ever—everyone knows that the earth itself rests on the back of a turtle, and it’s turtles all the way down.....

[Ezekiel]

This shell belonged to an extinct beast called Stupendemys geographicus...

Extinct? What's in a name? T is for "Turtle":

Or tortoise... because everyone knows how/why he ends up winning. ;)

People even make fun of his hare, can you believe it?

[PeterPrinciple]

The species likely achieved its colossal size thanks to the warm wetlands and lakes in its habitat, Sánchez noted.

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Global warming will bring it back.......................

[Bob434]

link

[gcparent]

Only turtle I care about is Mitch.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

[LegendHasIt]

Nah, The Great A'Tuin is much much larger.

[Robert DeLong]

It was 15 feet from head to tail, 13 feet from flipper to flipper and 4,900 pounds.

[Red Badger]

[blam]

More turtle stories:

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

[octex]

From the excerpt:
“...the largest complete turtle shell known to science...”