Just let me say...I love turtles

[Baclava]

I had to get out and move two turtles from the street the other day.

...one a big box turtle and the other a snapping turtle. They were both out in the traffic. I was afraid somebody would run them over... so I jumped out and steered them back to the ponds/piney woods...I didn't have to take them far. Just out of traffic.

Big rains the last few days...back here in the swamp.






Here's a hint....best to pick them up by the back end of the shell

[Pool Hall Ace]

1. I thought you were going to post a photo of a sweet item

given your screen name and all. But good for you! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: That is the type of thing I would have done.

[Baclava]

2. Yes - roll me in honey and I have a nutty inside

but I still think turtles are cool ;)

[freshwest]

3. Great pix. Do you post in the Photography forum? And good story, thanks.

[Baclava]

14. All my best pics are from Alaska...thanks

then








now

[Blue-Jay]

4. .

[nolabear]

5. Just Mr. and Mrs. McConnell off to visit their boy.

No joke too silly to beat to death.

[applegrove]

6. I saved a turtle a year ago. I almost ran over it. I drove a mile further (there was nowhere to turn

around) doubled back and the turtle was still on the road, still in one piece.

[madmom]

7. I've done that since I was a kid, my parents always laughed at me, but the stopped so I could.

[TuxedoKat]

8. I rescue turtles

every spring and fall. Even took two injured ones to small animal rehabilitators.

[Optimus_Prime]

9. Two examples

A turtle I hate:



Turtles I love:

[GoCubsGo]

10. Mmmm....Turtles...

[NightWatcher]

11. a couple of months ago I rescued and relocated a huge loggerhead and a juvenile green

there were a few that didnt make it however. This year has seen the biggest increase of nests and hatchlings of sea turtles around here that many have ever seen.

Last month I was in Puerto Rico working to save manatees near a marine construction site.

[Taverner]

12. Ah but what to do with a turtle once you have their attention?

they lose interest quickly, I'm told :)

[Baclava]

13. They might not be too bright, but they are scrambly things when you pick them up - - I move quickly

...and no, I never lick my fingers after I handle slippery reptiles

[mysuzuki2]

15. I love turtles too.

But the caramel part keeps getting stuck between my teeth.

[Baclava]

16. There's always one or two in the crowd. Turtles are older than most dinosaurs...

...snakes, lizards and all them other guys.


220-million-year-old turtle leaves researchers shell shocked


OTTAWA - A research team's discovery of the world's oldest turtles has provided new insight into the evolution of the ancient creatures.



The Canadian Museum of Nature's Xiao-chun Wu, along with his team of researchers from Canada, China and the U.S., uncovered two well-preserved fossils of ancestral turtles that swam in the shallow ocean of present-day China 220 million years ago.

These are the oldest turtles ever found - even older than most dinosaurs.

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/story.html?id=a0370924-de8c-43ae-93f6-e06692b53627

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(edit) I, for one, welcome the return of our reptilian overlords.