When Sea Turtles Grew to the Size of Rhinos

When we think of Cretaceous marine reptiles our minds usually go to giant long necked plesiosaurs or crocodile jawed mosasaurs. However sea turtles also once held the mantle of giant marine monsters as well. Sea turtles are big animals today but 70 million years ago they grew to the size of rhinos.

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https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/34/10/2730/4086584

https://web.archive.org/web/20130606110806/http://www.geo.uni-tuebingen.de/fileadmin/website/arbeitsbereich/palaeo/biogeologie/Images/Joyce_Publications/18__Joyce_2007.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281576808_Oldest_known_marine_turtle_A_new_protostegid_from_the_Lower_Cretaceous_of_Colombia

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