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The prehistoric turtle may have reached a total body length of around 5 feet, according to paleontologists.

Paleontologists have discovered giant tortoise fossils in Colombia dating back some 57 million years, the university leading the excavation said, with the findings key to understanding South America's prehistoric eras.

It's a rock, it's a plant... it's an ancient baby turtle! These turtle fossils spent 20 years in a drawer, mislabeled as ancient plants.

Researchers nicknamed the fossil “Turtwig” after a Pokemon that’s half-turtle, half-plant. From the 1950s to the 1970s, a Colombian priest named Padre Gustavo Huertas collected rocks and fossils near a town called Villa de Levya. Two of the specimens he found were small, round rocks patterned with

The prehistoric specimens found in Colombia could represent one of the oldest and largest turtle species to ever exist