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.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Is this what Obama is replacing the nukes with?
“Is this what Obama is replacing the nukes with?”
No. That is what the turtles are getting rid of Obama with:)
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