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Ancient Thick-shelled Turtle Discovered in Coal Mine
livescience ^
| 4-9-10
| Rachael Rettner, LiveScience Staff Writer
Posted on 04/09/2010 7:30:05 PM PDT by cajuncow
A new fossil turtle species discovered in South America boasts quite a bulky shell about as thick as your average high-school textbook.
The shell, about 3.3 feet (1 meter) across and 1.4 inches (3.5 centimeters) thick, might have protected the turtle against attacks from large crocodile-like animals as well as the giant Titanoboa, the world's largest snake (about 45-feet long), which would have shared this turtle's neighborhood around 60 million years ago, the researchers say.
The newly identified species, called Cerrejonemys wayuunaiki and discovered in the Cerrejón coal mine in Columbia, was the ancestor to one of the most diverse groups of South American freshwater turtles living today, said study author Edwin Cadena, a doctoral candidate at North Carolina State University.
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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; titanoboa
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04/09/2010 7:30:52 PM PDT
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al baby
(Hi Mom sarc ;))
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04/09/2010 7:31:51 PM PDT
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umgud
(Obama is a failed experiment.)
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Close down the mine! We have to protect the turtle! Oh it’s already dead? We were too late! Close down the mine and mourn another extinct species cause my fossil fuel mining!
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Domandred
(Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
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species cause my fossil oi my typing is as bad as liberal logic
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Domandred
(Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
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maybe its a horta How to you write "No Kill I" in Spanish ?
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tophat9000
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al baby
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It could have been one of the Slowskis from the Comcast commercial.
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donhunt
(Obama care should begin with doctors putting Nancy Pelosi's tongue in a splint.)
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Copied thanks................
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