scientist late discovered a fossilized turtle so bighearted , its shell could be mistaken for a boat . If you were to stand it up , is 5 foot 7 inches , just shorter than the intermediate American male . That ’s just the racing shell . Its skull is about the size of it of a football and was equipped with massive jaw that allowed it to eat almost anything . This fossilized stay ofthis car - sized beast were lately discoveredin Columbia .
The clay of the turtle , called Carbonemys cofrinii , were found in a Colombian coal mine by a team of NC State researchers . Published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , the 60 million - twelvemonth - older , fresh water - lie in turtle is the first exercise of gigantism in fresh water turtles . probably a dominant preditor , the turtle was also probably a neighbor of the large snake ever let on , Titanoboa , which hung out in what is now Columbia . So to recap , five million years after the death of the dinosaurs , there were still giant terrible reptiles string up around dank swampland in South America . Sounds pleasant . [ NC StateviaEureka ]
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