Now if only I could get an Adamant one with awesome IV's. For now, we must make due with digital Archelon and sea turtles. They all went extinct with the dinosaurs regardless. They may have either slept on the seabeds of North America or brumated depending on the weather. Supposedly, there was one that lived around a hundred years. Nobody knows how long individual Archelon lived. Someone, somewhere, has probably tracked turtle evolution it must be fascinating to see a netlike shell like Archelon's become solid over time. The Archelon had either leather or detatched bone covering its shell. Modern turtles have their backbones fused into their shells, which are also bony - seriously, that whole shell has bone under it.
Flash back to our turtle soup entry - that's a lot of soup.Īside from sheer size, Archelon has one more distinctive trait: its shell is, in a way, incomplete. It weighed somewhere around 4,900 pounds (2,200 kg) when alive. The largest of them measures 13 feet (4 meters) from head to tail and 16 feet (almost 5 meters) from flipper to flipper.
Most of them have been found in Wyoming and South Dakota.Īrchelon was one huge turtle. The closest living relatives of Archelon are modern leatherback sea turtles. There is a wide range of things it could have eaten depending on jaw strength - speculation ranges from squid to jellyfish to potentially being an omnivore. Archelon (only one species known) was a huge sea turtle that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period, the time when T-Rex and Triceratops were having epic battles on land and Pteranodon roamed the skies.
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