They didn't mess with ancient turtle the size of a car

MSNBC ^ | 5-17-2012 | Jeanna Bryner

[Renfield]

A turtle the size of a small car once roamed what is now South America 60 million years ago, suggests its fossilized remains.

Discovered in a coal mine in Colombia in 2005, the turtle was given the name Carbonemys cofrinii, which means "coal turtle." It wasn't until now that the turtle was examined and described in a scientific journal; the findings are detailed online Thursday in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology.

The researchers say C. cofrinii belongs to a group of side-necked turtles known as pelomedusoides. The turtle's skull, roughly the size of an NFL football, was the most complete of the fossil remains.....

[SunkenCiv]

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[Sacajaweau]

Put on the BIG kettle Mary............

[bunkerhill7]

This where Turtle Wax originated

[mrs. a]

Now THIS is a turtle with which one does not mess!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-UACM_8q_Q

[GenXteacher]

“A turtle the size of a small car once roamed what is now South America 60 million years ago”

Somehow, ‘roamed’ and turtle don’t seem to go together.

[Moltke]

Was a giant fencepost found below the turtle?

[RedMDer]

Keep FR Running Let's get to Yellow!

[muawiyah]

Gamera = camera ~ Japanese called their earliest cameras 'turtles'.

So, the home islands, wherever coal was deposited, were known by the ancients to have been built on the backs of turtles!

[mountainlion]

Turtles more closely related to BIRDS?

http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-lift-lid-turtle-evolution-230956824.html

[1010RD]

Have enviros gotten cars that small?