{"id":10127,"date":"2024-03-26T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/26\/an-extinct-sofa-sized-turtle-may-have-lived-alongside-humans\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T12:30:08","slug":"an-extinct-sofa-sized-turtle-may-have-lived-alongside-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/26\/an-extinct-sofa-sized-turtle-may-have-lived-alongside-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"An extinct sofa-sized turtle may have lived alongside humans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As little as 9,000 years ago, a sofa-sized turtle paddled around the Brazilian Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The finding, based on a fossilized jawbone, reveals that some of the most massive turtles ever lived relatively close to the modern day<\/a>. The turtle lived so recently, in fact, it\u2019s possible that people living in South America encountered it, researchers report in the March Biology Letters<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s lower jaw. And it was big.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n