The Daily Populous Friday February 13rd, 2026 evening edition
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MyPhantomAccount on February 13rd, 2026 at 14:32 UTC »

I'm ok with the size. I'm ok with the flippers. I'm not ok with the fact it has gears

Klotzster on February 13rd, 2026 at 14:35 UTC »

Missing parts now property of Shell Oil

Spartan2470 on February 13rd, 2026 at 15:13 UTC »

Here are non-horizontally flipped and higher-quality versions of this image. Credit to the photographer, Frederic A. Lucas.

> In 1895, American paleontologist George Reber Wieland discovered an almost complete skeleton of a large aquatic turtle, lacking the skull, along the Cheyenne River in South Dakota. More specifically, the find was made near Custer County, within the Pierre Shale, a geological formation dating to the late Campanian of the Late Cretaceous. The year following the discovery, this specimen, now catalogued as YPM 3000 in the collections of the Peabody Museum of Natural History...

> Archelon is an extinct marine turtle from the Late Cretaceous, and is the largest turtle ever to have been documented, with the biggest specimen measuring 4.6 m (15 ft) from head to tail and 2.2–3.2 t (2.4–3.5 short tons) in body mass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archelon

Edit: Those aren't gears. A picture here may help to clarify. That is a different type of turtle, but the structure is similar.