Scientists Discover Giant Prehistoric Turtle | Sci-Tech Today

Scientists Discover Giant Prehistoric Turtle, Sci-Tech Today, May 28, 2012.  Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of an ancient turtle that is being described as the size of a dining room table. Carbonemys cofrinii, or “coal turtle,” was more than six-feet long from nose to tail. It represents a rapid increase in size from the largest known to have lived just before it, which were about two feet long….  Dan Ksepka, an NCSU paleontologist, is featured.