PBS Eons: The Return of Giant Skin-Shell Sea Turtles

 

PBS Eons has a new episode.  This one is about one of the largest turtles that every lived… Archelon.

The biggest turtle ever described wasn’t an ancestor of today’s leatherback turtles or any other living sea turtles. But it looks like there are some things about being a giant, skin-shelled sea turtle that just work, no matter where, or when, you lived.

 

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