Car-Sized Giant Turtle Discovered in Colombia Ate Alligators for Breakfast

Car-Sized Giant Turtle Discovered in Colombia Ate Alligators for Breakfast, Slate, May 18, 2012.  The Paleocene era would have been a terrible time to own a pet turtle, unless you had a garage to park it in. Paleontologists have discovered a car-sized turtle in a Colombian coalmine that may have eaten alligators and ruled a large swath of land and fresh water. Edwin Cadena and Dan Ksepka, marine, earth and atmospheric sciences, featured.