Plying the subtropical seas that washed the coasts of the archipelago that made up Europe 83 million years ago was one of the largest turtles on record, a reptile the size of a small car that braved dangerous waters.
- Plying the subtropical seas that washed the coasts of the archipelago that made up Europe 83 million years ago was one of the largest turtles on record, a reptile the size of a small car - a Mini Cooper to be precise - that braved dangerous waters.
"Leviathanochelys was as long as a Mini Cooper while Archelon was the same size as a Toyota Corolla," said paleontologist and study co-author Albert Sellés of the Institut Català de Paleontologia , a research center affiliated with Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Other large turtles from Earth's past include Protostega and Stupendemys, both reaching about 13 feet long. Protostega was a Cretaceous sea turtle that lived about 85 million years ago and, like its later cousin Archelon, inhabited the large inland sea that at the time split North America in two. Stupendemys prowled the lakes and rivers of northern South America about 7-13 million years ago during the Miocene Epoch.
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