Recent discoveries in the Amazon leave many beautifully stunned and bewildered at the same time! Just like this massive tortoise found in the Amazon which sizes up almost to a car. Talk about huge! Researchers say this tortoise is a species of C. cofrinii, belonging to a group of side-necked turtles known as pelomedusoides. The turtle's head is huge, which was truly astounding.

In addition to its colossal size, the turtle us said to have been equipped with massive, powerful jaws, meaning it could've eaten just about anything in its range, from mollusks (a group that includes snails) to smaller turtles and even crocodiles, the researchers noted.
Its all-encompassing appetite as well as its need for a large range to satiate its food requirements may explain why no other turtle of this size has been found at the site. "It's like having one big snapping turtle living in the middle of a lake", one of the researchers who found out the tortoise in a statement. "That turtle survives because it has eaten all of the major competitors for resources." While the researchers have found bite marks on the remains of other side-necked turtles in the area, suggesting they were preyed upon by crocodilians, such predators would not have messed with this gigantic turtle. "In fact smaller crocodiles would have been easy prey for this behemoth." He added. Truly this was a rare find in the Amazon, and now researchers are delving deep into their findings to figure out how this massive tortoise came into being. What are your thoughts on this recent discovery? Share us your thoughts with your comments below!