The American Box Turtles

Now, as most may know sea turtles are both marine and land animals depending on what stage of life they are in. Which means that they need to be able to go on land during certain stages of their lives. One of the main reasons why a sea turtle will go on to land is to lay their eggs. Within the last few years this has become harder and harder for the already endangered species. It

About 20 million years after Pappochelys, we began to see a more similar looking ancestor to the turtle, the Odontochelys semitestacea. O.semitestacea was roaming the planet in the Late Triassic era in modern day China. Odontochelys differed a lot from modern turtles. Modern day turtles possess a horned like beak without any teeth present in their mouth, while Odontochelys fossils showed that teeth were found embedded in their upper and lower jaws. One of the most interesting features of turtles, both modern and prehistoric, are their shells that formed an armored protective casing over its body. Odontochelys only possessed the plastron (the bottom portion of a turtle's armor) and it had yet to develop a solid carapace. Instead of a carapace,

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

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.

Loggerhead eggs and hatchlings are a large food source for a variety of terrestrial animals, nearshore predatory fish, and seabirds, providing substantial amounts of energy and nutrients for these species (Wilson et al. 2010). A five or ten year period of loggerhead turtle declines may cause sublethal effects such as decreased growth rates or reproductive output for these predator species and a fifty year period of loggerhead turtle decline may potentially have more severe impacts such as significant declines for local populations that rely on eggs and hatchlings as a food source.

To warm up, they bask in the sun. In winter, all reptiles in our area must hibernate to survive the cold.” This explains the uncommon sighting of most turtles this time of the season. But as soon as the weather warms up, the turtles start to come out to bask for warmth. When we were on our class trip to Prospect Park in Brooklyn, we encountered a dead turtle. The lifeless shell was flipped over and cracked. It almost appeared as it was frozen. As discussed as a class, what we were observing was in fact a turtle trying to bask in the sun on a warm spring day and the weather turn for the worst the following day, leaving the turtle to suffer. Another example of a turtle encounter was last summer in central park. On a warm sunny day, I went on a boat ride in the central park pond. On the nearby rocks, there were numerous turtles basking in the sun and cooled off by diving into the water. With my fascination of turtles, I made the person rowing with me row closer to get an up close look. Some people may wonder how these turtles get here? Most of the time, they are brought into an area as pets and then released by owners. This causes stress on the animal and its

They have the ability to stand high-temperature levels, thus they will stay outdoors throughout the year. More so, they are burrowing animals and they love to feed.

Blanding’s Turtles typically inhabit wetland areas including swamps, bogs, ponds, lakes, and slow flowing streams. Although the species often make short movements between wetlands for purposes such as nesting, accessing resources, and overwintering, they show a high level of fidelity to the same wetland area. In a study of 143 Blanding’s Turtles in the Edwin S. George Reserve area, 75% of the population were captured and recaptured

Treating turtle is easier that the golden fish, because turtle don’t need so many water to live on, like fish, it just need a medium space full of soil and you can just give vegetables for the food. As long as it got enough of sunlight,

Paleontologists working with the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt recently shared information about the oldest sea turtle fossil yet discovered. It predates the previous record holder from Brazil, Santanachelys gaffneyi, by at least 25 million years.

Green Sea turtles are very small when they are born, but as they mature, they become the largest hard-shelled sea turtles. These turtles do are not named for having a green shell, but for having green skin. Their shell is a brown or olive color. The organisms that make up this species are usually herbivores, but are omnivores while they are young. They eat seaweed and other plants or algae found in the ocean. Green sea turtles have serrated jagged edged jaws, which they have adapted for a vegetarian diet made up of eating of seagrasses, plants, and algae found in the ocean. When the turtles are not born yet, they are in a nesting habitat. The mother buries her eggs in the sand along a beach. Once they hatch, they head for the ocean and live ocean habitats. The ocean is extremely salty, and can be dangerous to species who are have not adapted to that environment. Green sea turtles are unique to the ocean environment because they “...have a salt

The leatherback sea turtle or lute turtle is scientifically referred to as Dermochelys coriacea and is the largest living reptiles and marine turtle. The leatherback sea turtle is apart of the Dermochelyidae family and is the only living species in the genus Dermochelys. The leatherback sea turtle can grow up to seven feet and surpass 2,000 pounds making it the largest turtle on the globe. The ancestry of the reptilian species can be traces back more than 100 million years and has been found in each ocean with the exception of the Arctic and Antarctic, be that as it may, the lute turtle population has been declining rapidly in numerous parts of the world. Leatherbacks have the most extensive worldwide appropriation of all reptile species, and

2 years later, Turtle and Crab decided to go to shell camp down by where turtle live.

If you are looking for a pet that lives a long time and doesn't need training, then these may be the perfect pet for you! They are fun to watch and care for as well. You have to be committed because turtles have a long lifespan. They can live for around 30 years! They cause little trouble and make wonderful pets.

Tortoises that live in in the desert have been around for Bantu 1 million years (Garcia). When they live with someone the turtles can longer than