Peltocephalus maturin was one of the biggest turtles ever, but unlike similarly sized prehistoric freshwater turtles, it lived thousands of years ago.

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Sofa sized? How many football fields is that?
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  2 meters or 200 cm or 2000 mm.

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An extinct sofa-sized turtle may have lived alongside humans

An extinct sofa-sized turtle may have lived alongside humans