r/TurtleFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jun 10 '18
article Cure for a common turtle cancer takes a lesson from human cancers
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r/TurtleFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • May 17 '17
Article The Phoenix Zoo will begin routine management efforts this weekend to protect native turtles in the moat area near the zoo's entrance. Tagging males and releasing them while sending the females to the Phoenix Herpetological Society.
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r/TurtleFacts • u/wwwwolf • May 23 '16
Article As any fisherman knows, turtles are a "very strange kind of a fish", and thus should NOT be caught. Therefore, many modern fishermen use trawling nets that allow inadvertently caught turtles to turtle themselves out of them. Fish catching science wins again!
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r/TurtleFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 11 '18
Article Coast Guard releases sea turtles in North Carolina after they were cold stunned last December
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r/TurtleFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Aug 12 '18
article The Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk is asking boaters on the Long Island Sound to slow down after the deaths of two sea turtles in the last month.
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r/TurtleFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • May 10 '18
article Humane Society gives turtle-handling tips
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r/TurtleFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Sep 01 '18
article Virginia Beach animal-lover builds cage in his backyard to protect turtle eggs!
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r/TurtleFacts • u/scotttennorman • Jul 17 '16
Article Every summer leatherback turtles swim up to the Canadian Maritimes to eat jellyfish! They're here now baby!
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r/TurtleFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jun 30 '18
article How a Myrtle Beach vacationer rescued 'Jack' the sea turtle from 'death's door'
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r/TurtleFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jul 13 '18
Article State wildlife agency won't reprimand Holmes Beach over sea turtle collisions with beach benches
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r/TurtleFacts • u/talker90 • May 10 '16
Article Turtles may use the same gene that's involved in changing our body temperature throughout the day to determine their sex
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r/TurtleFacts • u/cbbuntz • Mar 10 '16
Article Some species of sea turtles are capable of cloacal respiration; they mate, lay eggs, urinate, defecate and breathe (underwater) with one orifice.
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r/TurtleFacts • u/coldWalk • Jun 22 '16
Article Mystery solved on where baby sea turtles go after hatching in the East Coast (x-post /r/science)
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r/TurtleFacts • u/supersonic-turtle • Apr 10 '16
Article Female box turtles can lay fertile eggs four years after a successful mating
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r/TurtleFacts • u/tkeajax • Jun 30 '16
Article THE eastern Box turtle has a home range of 300 yards
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r/TurtleFacts • u/hephaestion2 • Apr 27 '16
Article Much of the tortoise trade coming from Morocco is unsustainable and needs to be more carefully regulated
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r/TurtleFacts • u/The_Horse_Latitudes • Mar 30 '16
Article This ancient creature, named "grandfather turtle," shows how the turtle got its shell.
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r/TurtleFacts • u/wwwwolf • May 07 '16
Article Turtle racing is an animal sport that is considerably faster-paced than snail racing. While in simplest form it's cute fun for the whole family, at higher levels there are still severe questions of safety and animal welfare and such. Things get weird when things get all professional-like in sports.
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r/TurtleFacts • u/neoliberaldaschund • Mar 10 '16
Article Sixty million years ago there were turtles the size of cars.
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r/TurtleFacts • u/adandywarhol • Jul 15 '16
Article Turtles may have developed shells not for protection, but for digging; predecessor 'eunotosaurus' provides hints as to the turtle's evolution, featuring extremely broad ribs supporting a half-shell, or 'plastron.'
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r/TurtleFacts • u/corosuske • Mar 10 '16
Article the sex of res slider turtles can be told from the length of their nails
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r/TurtleFacts • u/UnitedAcademics • Mar 10 '16
Article Turtle Genome Shows Breathing Is Optional
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