Paleontologists have discovered fossilized remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant turtle that lived in what is now Colombia. Reconstruction of Carbonemys cofrinii preying upon a small crocodylomorph (Liz Bradford) The giant creature was named Carbonemys cofrinii or “coal turtle,” because it was discovered in 2005 in a coal mine that was part of northern Colombia’s Cerrejon formation. It belongs to a group of side-necked...
