In 2005, a 60-million-year-old fossil specimen was discovered in a Colombian coal mine, and had a shell that measured about, making it one of the world's largest turtles.
In 2005, a 60-million-year-old fossil specimen was discovered in a Colombian coal mine by a North Carolina State doctoral student named Edwin Cadena. It had a shell that measured about, making it one of the world's largest turtles.