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The ancient turtle was much larger than today's largest turtle - the leatherback, which can reach 2 meters long. Leviathanochelys nearly matched the largest turtle on record - Archelon, which lived roughly 70 million years ago and reached about 4.6 meters long.
Leviathanochelys aenigmatica is the latest ancient species of giant sea turtle to be unearthed. It was slightly smaller than a sedan.
Plying the subtropical seas that washed the coasts of the archipelago that made up Europe 83 million years ago was one of the largest turtles on record, a reptile the size of a...
Scientists unearthed the Leviathanochelys remains near the village of Coll de Nargó in Catalonia's Alt Urgell county
Plying the subtropical seas that washed the coasts of the archipelago that made up Europe 83 million years ago was one of the largest turtles on record, a reptile the size of a small car - a Mini Cooper to be precise - that braved dangerous waters.