Palaeontology 🦖@mander.xyzEnglish • 8 months ago

An extinct sofa-sized turtle may have lived alongside humans

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An extinct sofa-sized turtle may have lived alongside humans

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Palaeontology 🦖@mander.xyzEnglish • 8 months ago

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Peltocephalus maturin was one of the biggest turtles ever, but unlike similarly sized prehistoric freshwater turtles, it lived thousands of years ago.

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Please convert that to capybara loafs and bananas for what the whole loafs don’t fit.

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