Chelydra Spentina

Baby red-eared slider turtles are brightly colored. With bold patterns on their yellowish under shells. Which serve as a warning to predators. the bright colors of skunks and other animals. They signal that the animals will spray nasty chemicals. In contrast, the turtle's colors warn largemouth bass. that the baby turtle will actively defend itself. When a bass gulps down a turtle, the feisty baby laws and bites. Forcing the bass to spit it out. To avoid a similar painful experience. The bass will avoid other baby red-eared slider turtles. The turtle loses its bright colors as it grows too big. For a Bass's afternoon

Although with the temperatures rising so steadily normality is not as easy to come by when you are a sea turtle. Especially with temperatures spiking the way that they have been in the last few years in sea turtle’s main nesting areas such as Florida. Florida simply being one of the more common places

First, we will talk about the american alligators appearance. The american alligator has a broad head unlike the crocodile. The american alligator can get up to 18 feet in length and the females are smaller. They also have small bony scales that are called scutes. The color of the american alligator are a olive brown or can be a black color with creamy white underside. When they are in the water they look like floating logs so be careful.Clearly, this is the appearance

These snakes are crepuscular (meaning that they are more active in the early mornings). These snakes usually hunt at ground level, but on few meager occasions will climb a few feet off the ground when pursuing prey. In colder-wintered regions, the snake will hibernate in mammal or gopher tortoise

The American Alligator is also covered in an armor like coat called osteoderms or scutes. They have short legs with five toes on the front legs and four in the hind legs. The front toes are about half webbed and the outer hind toes are about two thirds webbed which allows them to swim with ease. The majority of all American Alligators are black or a dull gray with some lighter blotches on the sides and a light yellow underbelly. One of the most important features of the America Alligator is its muscular tail. Their tail is used to propel them out of the water, to swim fast, and to death

The ornate box turtle is a extremely common species of turtle that lives throughout the United States. The turtles can be easily recognized by their dark brown shell with bright yellow markings. Almost every box turtle is unique in marking, from yellow to orange spots on their body to the different patterns on their shell. The male and female box turtle are distinguishable by their eye color and tail size. Male ornate box turtles have red eyes and longer tails, while females have brown eyes and shorter tails. These turtles have a interesting life style because they usually live their entire life's within only a few acres. The turtles start out the day basking in the sun. from there they go out hunting for food. Ornate box turtles move and hunt

Ring-neck snakes live in various habitats. However, they prefer areas with damp soil and temperatures between 27 and 29 degrees Celsius. Mostly, their habitats are grasslands, rocky hillsides, coniferous forests, farmland, chaparrals, and mixed woodlands. Ring-neck snakes also like hiding, so most of the time they can be found beneath stones or barks from dead trees.

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Achieve3000, August 7, 2015). A rare leatherback sea turtle was found on a South Carolina beach in March 2015. The enormous reptile weighed 476 pounds (216 kilograms). It was spotted on the Yawkey-South Island Reserve in Georgetown County. The creature was brought to the South Carolina Aquarium. Workers named her Yawkey. She was treated with fluids, antibiotics, and vitamins. She was the first leatherback to be found alive in South Carolina. Caretakers were eager to see her returned to the sea.

The Cumberland slider turtle is my favorite animal, I’ll tell you all about where it lives and what it lives in.

The timber rattlesnake has a yellow (light) and black (dark) color phases, there are no markings on their heads, and they have a dark band along their back (Pennsylvania Boat & Fish Commission). Each time a rattlesnake sheds its skin, it adds a new rattle to the end of its tail (Pennsylvania Boat & Fish Commission). It is quite well known that these snakes have a rattle at the end of their tail that they will shake to warn predators to stay away. The eastern massasauga is known for its small body size averaging less than 2 feet in length with a row of dark blotches down the middle of of its back with smaller spots along each side (Pennsylvania Boat & Fish Commission). Comparing the 2 snakes, it is apparent that they are quite different in size and have different colors and patterns to their scales. The copperhead snake is tan or light brown in color and also has larger but more narrow blotches along the length of his body and their head are a copper color with no markings (Pennsylvania Boat & Fish Commission). As these snakes all show different traits they all are similar because they are all from the pit viper family and are extremely

The Texas horned lizard, Phrynosoma cornutum, is a species in the lizard family, Phrynosomatidae, which has ten genera and a diverse group of over 125 different species (Hammerson 2007; Cossel Jr. 1997). Lizards in this family can be found in Mexico, Panama, most areas of the United States and parts of Canada (Heying 2003). Phrynosomatids range in a variety of forms, but are most commonly distinguished by their small size (less than 10 cm long), rough and keeled scales, spikes on their bodies, and the fusion of the sides of their teeth to the sides of their inner jawbones, known as pleurodont teeth (Heying 2003). The thirteen species in the horned lizard genus, Phrynosoma, can be identified more specifically by their flattened bodies

First, you will learn about its appearance.The leatherbacks shell is soft, almost like leather.Leatherbacks are currently the largest sea turtles.They are also the longest turtles by twelve feet long.Therefore, you have now learned about their appearance.

Leatherback turtles have the most hydrodynamic body design of any sea turtle, with a large, teardrop-shaped body. A large pair of front flippers powers the turtles through the water. Like other sea turtles, the leatherback has flattened fore limbs adapted for swimming in the open ocean. Claws are absent from both pairs of flippers. Leatherback's front flippers can grow up to 2.7 m (8.9 ft) in large specimens, the largest flippers (even in comparison to its body) of any sea turtle. The leatherback has several features that distinguish it from other sea turtles. Its most notable feature is the lack of a bony carapace. Seven distinct ridges rise from the carapace, crossing from the anterior to posterior margin of the turtle's back. Leatherbacks

The realistic looking turtle slippers keep your feet warm and comfortable! The admirable design of the turtle details the green, doomed shell, with and the multi-colored scales upon its face, neck, and legs. With the realistic eyes, others will think they are real! The animal feet slippers have 1" foam on the bottom that keeps all feet happy with comfort and non-slipping rubber. Animal feet slippers are available in men’s, women’s and children’s sizes to please the entire family!

Sea turtles are one of Earth’s most ancient creatures; there are seven species of sea turtles, all of which are either threatened or endangered. The Hawksbill sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbracata , is considered to be a critically endangered species. (Jenifer Prine) The beautifully colored Hawksbill sea turtle can easily be distinguished by its defining physical characteristics. They are small to medium in size, with adults only reaching to 71-87 cm in length and 46-70 kg in weight (Eckert 1992, Pritchard et al . 1983). The Hawksbill has two distinctive claws on each anterior flipper. The greatest detectable trait of the Hawksbill is the elongated head that tapers into the “hawk-like” tomium, or beak, which is used to forage on sponge. The heart-shaped, sharply serrated carapace has thick, overlapping scutes that are patterned with random black, brown, amber, and yellow bursts of color. As they reach maturity, their carapace will change from heart-shaped to more elongate. Their plastron is usually a cream-yellow color with little to no dark pigmentation. Their venter is typically a pink or pale yellow to bright orange in color depending on age and border dark colored scales on the head. Hatchlings and post hatchlings are brown to dark brown in color with small, pale blotches on their scutes. (Stephanie Matlock)