turtles, and pterosaurs. However, about 200 million years ago during the Triassic-Jurassic transition, dinosaurs truly rose ...

This magnificent creature, now long extinct, was the largest turtle ever known. It measured 4.6 m (15 ft) from head to tail, surpassing any living turtle species by far. The first Archelon fossil was ...

Some megafauna, like the giant, horned turtle-type creature ... there and when they went extinct." Unlike the tropical regions, the southwest region has an excellent fossil record.

The turtle lived 14 million years ago in Australia’s Top End and probably became extinct as the continent became drier. It was found at the Bullock Creek fossil site where evolutionarily ...