文章大意:本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了在西班牙东北部发现的海龟化石,这是一只有记载以来最大的生活在白垩纪时期的名叫Levaithanochelys aenigmatica的古老海龟,并讲述了它曾经的生活状况。
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Marine (海洋的) creatures have long attracted scientists. Recently, researchers described remains discovered in northeastern Spain, 1 belonged to a turtle named Leviathanochelys aenigmatica. Living during the Cretaceous Period, the ancient turtle nearly matched the largest turtle 2 record.
Leviathanochelys swam in 3 (risk) waters. Its enemies included mosasaurs and plesiosaurs, large water creatures up to 15 meters in 4 (long). Other nearby enemies were sharks and rays. “ 5 (attack) an animal of the size of Leviathanochelys possibly only could have been done by large creatures in the marine context. At that time, the large ones in the European zone were 6 (main) sharks and mosasaurs,” said Oscar Castillo, the lead writer of the study that 7 (publish) in the Southern in Scientific Reports.
Scientists found the Leviathanochelys remains near the village of Coll deNargo in Catalonia’s Alt Urgell area. 8 hiker in the Southern Pyrenees saw the bones covered by the ground. To date, researchers 9 (find) parts of the back of the shell (壳), and most of the pelvic (骨盆的) area, but no skull or tail. The bones suggest the creature had a smooth shell similar to leatherback turtles, with the shell 10 (measure) about 2.35 meters long and 2.2 meters wide.