As little as 9,000 years ago, a sofa-sized turtle paddled around the Brazilian Amazon.
The finding, based on a fossilized jawbone, reveals that some of the most massive turtles ever lived relatively close to the modern day. The turtle lived so recently, in fact, it’s possible that people living in South America encountered it, researchers report in the March Biology Letters.
In 2007, gold miners digging near the Amazonian city of Porto Velho uncovered the fossilized remains, later determined by researchers to be part of a turtle’s lower jaw. And it was big.
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