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Monster turtle fossils re-united (BBC)
By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News
Two halves of a fossil bone found more 160 years apart have finally allowed scientists to scale one of the biggest sea turtles that ever lived.
Atlantochelys mortoni was originally described from a broken arm bone, or humerus, found in the 1840s in the US state of New Jersey.
Remarkably, the missing portion has also now been unearthed.
The fossil fragments are a perfect match, and indicate A. mortoni must have been 3m from tip to tail.
"When we put the two halves together, we were flabbergasted," recalls Dr Ted Daeschler, from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26717415
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