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... that the fossil turtle Acherontemys was named for a "river of the fabled lower world"? (2024-01-26)
... that Adwaita, the reportedly 255-year-old Aldabra Giant Tortoise that recently died in Kolkata zoo, was a pet of Robert Clive, the Commander-in-Chief, India of British East India Company? (2006-03-29)
... that the tiny fossil turtle Amabilis uchoensis was given the Latin name amabilis for being "lovable", but the large evergreen tree Abies amabilis is called amabilis because it is "lovely"? (2021-12-22)
... that hatchling Balkan terrapins are only 3 to 4 centimetres (1.2 to 1.6 in) in length, while adults (example pictured) can grow as long as 25 cm (9.8 in)? (2023-11-20)
... that the French poet Victor Segalen admired the four tortoises (later example pictured) that had glorified Prince Ancheng of Kang for almost one and a half millennia? (2010-01-25)
... that in Thailand, the smiling terrapin (pictured) is believed to contain the souls of people who died while trying to save others from drowning? (2011-04-13)
... that the Early Cretaceous turtle Caririemys was the fifth such turtle genus to have been discovered in Brazil's Santana Formation? (2008-12-26)
... that one of the specimens used to describe the extinct turtle Cearachelys was actually procured eight years prior to it being formally described in 2001? (2008-12-23)
... that the chicken turtle is one of the shortest-lived turtle species in the world? (2022-06-06)
... that the Chinese box turtle (pictured) has at least four common names, and there is debate over its genus classification? (2006-06-11)
... that Chinese softshell turtles pee using their mouths? (2012-10-22)
... that the male common box turtle (pictured) has to lean back past the vertical to mate with the female? (2011-07-31)
... that at an estimated 4 metres (13 ft), Cratochelone is the largest of the three extinct protostegid sea turtles found in Australia? (2011-09-06)
... that an almost-complete juvenile specimen of Ctenochelys was uncovered in 2005? (2008-07-07)
... that Senegalese turtle biologist Tomas Diagne drove 1,200 miles (1,900 km) to pick up the carcass of a Nubian flapshell turtle? (2021-02-01)
... that Diego (pictured) "had so much sex he saved his species"? (2020-02-14)
... that the Galápagos tortoise is the largest living tortoise in the world, only native to the Galápagos Islands, where about 15,000 of them live? (2005-04-13)
... that the Gulf Snapping Turtle was described as "Australia's first living fossil freshwater turtle, an extant population of a Pleistocene taxon"? (2010-01-11)
... that the extinct Itilochelys is one of only three known fossil cheloniid sea turtle taxa found in the Volgograd Region? (2011-09-17)
... that the type specimen of Kinkonychelys represents the first turtle skull described from the pre-Holocene era in Madagascar? (2010-01-23)
... that the largest organism in the world is a honey fungus which covers more than 3.4 square miles (8.9 km²) and is thousands of years old? (2005-08-23)
... that the Marginated Tortoise is the largest European tortoise? (2004-10-28)
... that Mazunte (pictured), now home to the Mexican National Turtle Center, was the site of a sea turtle slaughterhouse until 1990? (2010-01-20)
... that the Peters's squirrel, the flat-headed myotis, the false canyon mouse, the Chamula mountain brook frog, the Sierra Juarez brook frog, the Tamaulipas pygmy owl, and the Oaxaca mud turtle (pictured) are all native to Mexico and found nowhere else? (2016-08-04)
... that, together with Platychelys, Pleurosternon is one of the few fossil genera with characteristics of both modern turtle suborders? (2011-02-02)
... that the largest sea turtles ever to have swum the oceans belonged to the family Protostegidae? (2007-09-07)
... that the extinct sea turtle Psephophorus was once mistaken as an ancient armadillo due to the specimen's poor condition? (2008-07-01)
... that Puppigerus, an extinct sea turtle, had a specialized jaw structure which kept it from accidentally inhaling water? (2012-04-25)
... that Santanachelys gaffneyi is the earliest known sea turtle? (2007-09-09)
... that the Saw-shelled Turtle is one of the few native Australian animals which successfully prey on the introduced poisonous Cane Toad? (2010-08-07)
... that a species of the 80-million year-old sea turtle Terlinguachelys fischbecki was actually named after a school teacher? (2008-12-22)
... that the use of turtle excluder devices has decreased the number of sea turtles accidentally killed by shrimp fishermen by 97%? (2007-09-06)
... that hundreds of millions of Chinese Soft-shelled Turtles are raised every year in Asia's turtle farms? (2010-01-03)
... that twenty-six U.S. states have an official reptile? (2011-02-05)
... that in the Australian Journal of Herpetology, a first-year student and a high school teacher reassessed the taxonomy of Australia's entire reptile class, naming 33 novel genera and 214 new species? (2020-05-20)
... that one of only five extant Rafetus swinhoei soft-shelled turtles is thought by residents of Hanoi, Vietnam to be the magical Golden Turtle God named Kim Qui? (2006-12-13)
... that yellow-bellied sliders (pictured), popular as pets, are found in a wide variety of habitats, including rivers, floodplain swamps, seasonal wetlands, and permanent ponds? (2008-10-30)