Via NC State University: (hat tip Floyd) –

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A prehistoric turtle big enough to eat crocodiles has been discovered in Columbia. The turtle lived about 60-million-years ago, and was about the size of a small car.

The fossils were discovered in a coal mine in northern Colombia, in 2005. And has thusly been named Carbonemys cofrinii, ‘coal turtle’. With a skull about the size of a football, and a shell that’s about five and a half feet long.

“We had recovered smaller turtle specimens from the site. But after spending about four days working on uncovering the shell, I realized that this particular turtle was the biggest anyone had found in this area for this time period — and it gave us the first evidence of giantism in freshwater turtles,” Cadena says…”