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A giant turtle the size of a great white shark roamed the oceans around 80 million years ago, say scientists.
It was one of the largest that ever lived - measuring more than twelve feet long and weighing about two tons.
The remains dug up in the Southern Pyrenees, northeastern Spain, consist of a fragmented but almost complete pelvis and parts of the upper shell, or carapace.
They date to the Campanian Age, between 83.6 to 72.1 million years ago. The new species has been named Leviathanochelys aenigmatica.
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