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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/05/rmrutn820zprmibqzadd.jpg?quality=751440868Very few land turtles managed to survive the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs, but at least one species of primitive turtle managed to fend off extinction in the northern hemisphere, according to new fossils found in France.