CAR-SIZE TURTLE FOSSIL FIND

RESEARCHERS this week described remains discovered in north-eastern Spain of a turtle named Leviathanochelys aenigmatica that was about 3.7m long, weighed a bit under two tons and lived in the Cretaceous Period – the final chapter in the dinosaur age. Europe’s biggest turtle, it dwarfs today’s largest – the leatherback. See https://bit.ly/DinoTurtle