Newly discovered giant turtle fossil named after Stephen King character

Researchers who found a giant freshwater turtle fossil discovered in Brazil have named it Peltocephalus maturin after a character in one of Stephen King's novels. 

The fossil was "among the largest freshwater turtles ever found," researchers said in the release of their findings on Wednesday in the British journal Biology Letters. 

"Only a handful of them have crossed the 150 cm threshold in the past," researchers said.