carlos for scale
1y 2mon ago by lemmy.world/u/slazer2au in anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de from mander.xyz
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/27770863
Where's Carlos beside a car?
They never include a proper size comparison!
He’s carless.
The turtle has "the site of a car", 2.4 m apparently.
The sources I've found are not specific. The turtle with "the size of a car" might be 2.4 m or up to 3 m.
Then they might have found even bigger individuals in the meantime.
How many bananas for scale are in a Carlos?
This is Stupendemys geographicus from Urumaco, Venezuela, and Rodolfo Sánchez from Coro, Venezuela.
They grew up to 4m long, according to https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/12/giant-turtle-fossil-south-america-stupendemys-geographicus.