oldrover
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Not new, six years old, but still interesting and I don't think it's been posted here before;
"Meiolaniid or horned turtles are members of the extinct Pleistocene megafauna of Australia and the southwest Pacific. The timing and causes of their extinction have remained elusive. Here we report the remains of meiolaniid turtles from cemetery and midden layers dating 3,100/3,000 calibrated years before present to approximately 2,900/2,800 calibrated years before present in the Teouma Lapita archaeological site on Efate in Vanuatu".
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2932593/
There were Australian Pleistocene species that got very big, a couple of meters in length.
With horned heads, and a fused 'club' section at the end of the tail.
"Meiolaniid or horned turtles are members of the extinct Pleistocene megafauna of Australia and the southwest Pacific. The timing and causes of their extinction have remained elusive. Here we report the remains of meiolaniid turtles from cemetery and midden layers dating 3,100/3,000 calibrated years before present to approximately 2,900/2,800 calibrated years before present in the Teouma Lapita archaeological site on Efate in Vanuatu".
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2932593/
There were Australian Pleistocene species that got very big, a couple of meters in length.
With horned heads, and a fused 'club' section at the end of the tail.