Did you know about the car-sized dinosaur-era turtle?

This whole earth is full of surprises. Every day it keeps bringing new surprises to the people. We have seen dinosaurs only in animated movies. We don’t know about any other life that lived during that time. Now we have a new creature.

Researchers have discovered fossils of giant turtles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs. The species appears to have lived in the subtropical seas off the coast of the European archipelago 83 million years ago.

The species, called Leviathanochelys aenigmatica, is estimated to be 3.7 meters long. Based on a biblical sea beast of enormous dimensions and named after the “enigmatic leviathan turtle”. Researchers have been surprised by the enormous size of the turtle. Roughly speaking it is described as having the size of a small car.

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“The truth is that there are usually no fossils of reptiles like this in marine areas in the Pyrenees. This recent fossil is a surprise, and early in these dimensions. The morphology of its fossils is very interesting. It could be the seed of a new scientific evolution,” said Miguel Cristabant, a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Paleontology. Oscar Castillo said.

The remains, found in northeastern Spain, were about 12 feet long and weighed less than two tons. The researchers also described the turtle as having lived during the Cretaceous period, the final chapter of the Age of Dinosaurs. This turtle is so big that it can easily push away the biggest turtles of today. Today, the largest leatherback turtle in the world grows to a maximum length of 7 feet.

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Considering the dangerous traffic of the ancient Tethys Sea, where Leviathanoselis swam, it seems reasonable to be the size of a car to attack in that environment. This turtle with powerful jaws known as mosasaurs may have been a large predator. Some remains have been found even over 50 feet (15 meters) long.

One of the oldest representatives of the Chelonioidea, the group that includes all modern sea turtles, this turtle has a unique bony structure called a protuberance on the anterior part of the pelvis that is not seen in any other turtle.

Other large turtles from Earth’s past include Protosteca and Stupendemys, both of which reached lengths of about 13 feet (4 meters). These indicate that it lived about 85 million years ago along a river that divided the Americas in two at that time. But they are not today.