Archelon: The Largest Turtle Ever To Have Lived

Archelon was a prehistoric giant sea turtle whose fossilized remnants were discovered in Late Cretaceous strata in North America 100 million to 66 million years ago.

Archelon is the largest turtle ever to have been documented, with the biggest specimen measuring 4.6 m (15 ft) from head to tail.

00:00 Introduction
03:49 Carapace
06:00 Paleobiology
07:55 How The Turtle Got Its Shell
09:11 The Grandfather Turtle
10:51 Later Turtles
13:10 Meiolania
15:27 Stupendemys Geographicus

Sources:

1. https://www.dmns.org/science/earth-sc...
2. https://oliveridleyproject.org/blog/h...
3. https://www.livescience.com/largest-t...
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archelon
5. https://a-z-animals.com/animals/meiol...

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