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Cute Animal Friday: Alligator Snapping Turtle
by Amanda Arnold | October 7, 2011
You know you’ve got a special turtle on your hands when its name includes the word “alligator.” Of course, if you had one of these “on your hands” your hands would be mashed something awful because this turtle weighs as much as linebacker — about 200 pounds.
Giant horned turtles emerge from the muck
by Robert Lamb | September 16, 2010
As a long-time Gamera fan, it made my morning to see this post over at Australian Geographic: Fearsome giant turtles found in Pacific cemetery. As it turns out, we’re looking at prehistoric monsters more in the 3.3 feet(1 meter) range, so they wouldn’t have been able to hold their own against a skyscraper. And despite the tough shell and cool array of horns, they apparently couldn’t hold their own against prehistoric human hunters. When the two species first encountered each other around 3,000 years ago, the bipedal island hoppers apparently racked up on turtle meat and decorated their cemeteries with their bones.
While most of your electronics and clothing probably carry the label “Made in China,” there’s one export that the United States seems to specialize in: turtle meat. The Chinese appetite for turtles — as well as a popular belief in the animals’ medicinal power — has led to a booming trade between the two countries, leaving conservationists concerned.
Some men spend quite a lot of time sowing their wild oats before they settle down and start a family. After all, there are places to go, illicit love affairs to pursue and countless anime and manga-themed figures to collect, paint and display in your stylish otaku bachelor pad. Then there’s 90-year-old Lonesome George, the only known living Geochelone abigdoni tortoise in the world.
You asked: What is the difference between Turtle and Tortoise? — Sikkanthar, Bangalore, India Marshall answered: The name “turtle” is the name of an order. Under the order come all species of turtles, which includes tortoises. But colloquially, the basic idea is that turtles are happy getting in and out of water, while tortoises stay [...]
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