If you ever wanted proof that ancient giant turtles really were giant, this is it.
Venezuelan palaeontologist Rodolfo Sánchez is dwarfed by the carapace of a male Stupendemys geographicus, which was found in eight-million-year-old deposits near the desert town of Urumaco.
The carapace is nearly three metres long, and the turtle itself was almost 1145 kilograms – around one hundred times the weight of its closest living relative, the big-headed Amazon river turtle (Peltocephalus dumerilianus).
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