Turtle | Florida Box Turtle Terrapene carolina | | | Chelonia mydas in Kona‚ Hawaii. | A turtle with eyes closer to the end of the head. Keeping only the nostrils and the eyes above the water surface. | 1. | Snapping Turtle Tail. Blue Hills Reservation‚ Massachusetts | "Chelonia" (Testudines) from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur‚ 1904 | The Western Hermann’s Tortoise (Testudo hermanni hermanni) is a cryptodire.Cryptodires hide their head inwards. | The Western Hermann’s
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classified into three groups‚ turtles‚ snakes‚ and lizards. There are lots of species of turtles‚ like the sea turtle who live in the oceans. They can be identified by their long‚ streamlined shell and their color range of olive-green‚ yellow‚ greenish-brown‚ reddish-brown‚ or black.
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Hawksbill Turtle Eretmochelys imbricata Shane Stoughton GS 108 Oceanography Suzanne Bannan September 05‚ 2012 INTRODUCTION Sea turtles were making their appearance about 65 million years ago‚ also the time that dinosaurs were being wiped out. These magnificent creatures did not succumb to extinction like their dinosaur counterparts primarily because they were submerged beneath the ocean when the asteroids struck Earth. This is one of main reasons I chose the specific sea turtle The Hawksbill
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The Hatchling Turtles is a story about both the journey of a turtle coming home to lay her eggs on the beach and the hatching of her eggs. The turtles instinctively know to come home to their own original ancestral hatchling site during the month of February to lay their eggs. Now‚ it is time for this turtle to return to her beach on Bimini Island to lay her own eggs. Before she reaches the shores‚ she will overcome various obstacles during her travels to reach her final destination determined
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The world on the turtles back The world on the turtles back is a creation myth story that has been passed down from generation to generation in the Native American culture. The story gives explanations for how the world came to be. It also tells of how day & night and also agriculture was created. The Native Americans believed that there was a city in the sky. A woman lived there and became ill. She begged her husband to get things from a sacred tree. Upon refusal
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Movement The Snapping Turtle moves with his four feet on land. In the water it’s a natural swimmer‚ it uses its webbed feet and its tail. Habitat The Snapping Turtle prefers muddy lakes and ponds‚ but will also live in slow moving rivers. Those environments are ideal for the Snapper. Protection The Snapping Turtle has a giant shell on is back that protects it from its very few predators. When the Snapping turtle is in the water it is relatively docile and doesn’t go looking for trouble
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rEmily Sullivan 9/28/12 Chemistry Puentemys Mushaisaensis‚ The 60 Million Year Old Turtle On September 11‚ 2012 researchers form the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and North Carolina State University discovered fossil of a prehistoric turtle in the northern part of South America. They dated the turtle to be sixty million years old and named it Puentemys mushaisaensis because the skeleton was found in the Cerrejon Coal Mine. This mine was made famous with the discovery
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Hawksbill turtles are found all throughout the tropical waters of the atlantic‚ inidan‚ and pacific oceans. Hawksbill turtles avoid deep waters‚ favoring coastlines where sponges are plentlyful and have sandy nesting sites within reach. Hawksbills grow up to about 45 inch in shell length and 150 pounds in weight. When hawksbill turtles are young‚ their carapace‚ or upper shell‚ is heart-shaped‚ and as they mature it elongates. Their strikingly colored carapace is ragged and has overlapping scutes
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QUESTIONING THE WISDOM BEHIND SPENDING ON TURTLES…… Hasan Hanif &; Daniyal Motan Pakistan has been blessed with a coastline that extends up to 1‚050 km (650 mi). Of these 250 km fall in Sindh province and 800 km in Baluchistan. This gives one an idea of the scope of the effort needed to protect and conserve the Green Sea Turtle which nests along the length and breadth of this coastline. The problem is compounded by the fact that the Makran coast‚ in Baluchistan consists of steep mountains that
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LITERATURE REVIEW The Hawksbill Turtle has become an alarmingly endangered species in recent years. The turtle’s biggest threat is humans. The Hawksbill turtles have been physically harmed and so have their habitats. Many Hawksbill turtles are accidently caught in fishing nets or hooks. When the turtles are captured or tangled in nets‚ they are prevented from receiving oxygen‚ so the turtle drowns to its death. Fishing hooks have violently stabbed and killed the turtles (Callender‚ 2013). Another factor
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