News Of The Day: Car-Sized Turtle Remains Found In Colombia


And you thought Gamera was fiction. From Discovery News.









Car-Sized Turtle Found In Colombian Coal Mine

Remains of an enormous turtle, which was the size of a Smart car, have been unearthed in a Colombian coal mine.

The shell alone of the 60-million-year-old turtle, Carbonemys cofrinii aka "coal turtle," is large enough to be a small swimming pool. Its skull is roughly the size of a