Today is World Turtle Day! Researchers at North Carolina State University recently published a paper describing a "Giant" palaeogene turtle. The fossil named, Carbonemys cofrinii, was discovered in a coal mine in Northern Colombia, and is 60 million years old, and has been described as being as "large as a smart car". As well as having a large size, the turtle also had large and powerful jaws, which researchers believe would have enabled it to eat anything nearby including molluscs, smaller turtle and even small crocodiles. The image below is of Edwin Cadena, the researcher who discovered the fossil, standing next to the shell. to read more about this amazing find head to the link below; http://www.newswise.com/articles/ancient-giant-turtle-fossil-revealed -LL