Freshwater turtles come in all shapes and sizes, but few inspire quite as much awe as Stupendemys geographicus — an aptly named giant whose very existence seems borrowed from myth. This now-extinct lovely inhabited the waterways of northern South America during the Miocene and grew to truly staggering proportions. Its shell stretched nearly three metres in length — up to 9.5 feet —
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