turtle

     

Cryptoira Pleurodira See text for families.

Trivia about turtle

  • Surprisingly, the smooth soft-shell species of this reptile is said to be able to run as fast as a man
  • Dr. Seuss' Yertle was one
  • Examples include leatherback, loggerhead & mutant ninja
  • The largest freshwater species of this reptile in the U.S. is the alligator snapper
  • Though French chefs most often make soup from this reptile, its flippers may be braised & served in sauce
  • If you're slow but steady & you still beat a sprinter, you might be compared to this creature of fable
  • Tradition holds that Aeschylus died when a bird dropped this reptile on his bald head to crack its shell
  • The green type of this reptile gained protection in the 20th century because of its popular use in soup
  • On Grand Cayman Island, visit the farm that raises the green sea type of this reptile
  • "Slow as" this reptile of the order Testudines
  • The green sea type of this swims over 1,000 miles from South America to Ascension Island, in order to breed
  • The beak-to-tail measurement of the leatherback species of this sea creature can run about 7 feet
  • The eggs of this shelled reptile are sometimes hard-boiled & the flippers may be braised in wine sauce
  • A Japanese folktale tells of Urashima Taro who saves one of these sea reptiles that turns into a young woman
  • (Hi, I'm Jeff Probst [in Thailand].) Several species of these migratory sea creatures, including green & hawksbill, lay their eggs on Tarutao's beaches
  • It's said that a common box one of these, Terrapene carolina, lived to be around 130 years old
  • Kansas fancied the fancy shell of the ornate box type of this & made it the state reptile
  • The leatherback is the only living species of this that has free ribs & vertebrae
  • Beware: the soup called "mock" this is actually made from a calf's head cooked in water
  • Mock this soup is sometimes garnished with calves' brains; who can say no to that?
  • When threatened, Roman legions joined shields to form a box called a testudo, the Latin term for this reptile
  • Up to 8 feet long & 2,000 pounds, the leatherback is the largest species of this reptile
  • Many of this type of reptile are slow, but the smooth softshell species can often outrun a human on level ground
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew handles a net on a shrimp boat in Savannah, GA.) An excluder device called a T.E.D. helps this animal, such as the loggerhead, from getting caught in the net
  • The alligator snapper isn't an alligator but one of these reptiles
  • Creation stories of the Onondaga & other Indian tribes put the world on the back of this animal
  • After cuddling your common box type of this reptile , wash your hands to prevent salmonella
  • The loggerhead species of this reptile often feeds on jellyfish in the open seas
  • Franklin on Nickelodeon
  • Appropriate aquatic reptile name for inventor David Bushnell's submarine prototype
  • Intent on demolishing Tokyo, Gamera was a giant monster one of these reptiles that breathed fire & could fly