Tag: Venezuela
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Battle-scarred fossils suggest giant turtles fought each other—and crocodiles three times their size
Science Magazine has a story about the discovery of some giant turtle fossils in Columbia and Venezuela. The turtles, called Stupendemys geographicus, lived about 12 million years ago. Males weighed about 1100 kilograms. These new fossils show they bore unusual large horns off the front of their shells, which they probably used to battle with…
