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UPI NewsTrack Science and Technology News, TMCnet.com; also Individual.com, May 17, 2012. Paleontologists say they’ve found fossilized remains of an ancient turtle with a shell the size of a small car that lived 60 million years ago in South America. Dubbed Carbonemys cofrinii, or “coal turtle,” the fossil was discovered in a coal mine in Colombia, researchers from North Carolina State University reported Thursday. Dan Ksepka, an NCSU paleontologist and a research associate at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, and NCSU doctoral student Edwin Cadena are featured.
