Sentences with phrase «of snapping turtles»

Niagara County SPCA officials are asking for the public's help identifying an individual involved in the brutal beating of a snapping turtle last month.

A Computed Tomography rendering of a snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) showing the skeleton (white), lungs (blue), and abdominal muscles (red and pink) used to ventilate the lungs.

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A pack of «pet» snapping turtles live in a pond - like water feature at the hotel's front entrance for which the valet staff will eagerly provide you with food to feed them.

Two of Reid's divers have been bitten by alligators or whacked by their tails; another surrendered a finger to a snapping turtle.

Because of the species» engendered status, it's illegal to hunt alligator snapping turtles in Illinois.

The scissors probably weren't needed today: Patsy the «alligator snapping turtle» has a set of jaws so powerful she could have cut the ribbon herself.

Until early in the 20th century, alligator snapping turtles were plentiful from headwaters in the Midwest into swamps of the Deep South, but «river turtles were hit hard in the 1960s and 1970s,» Roman says.

Roman says, «some people claim they can snap a broom handle,» with their powerful jaws — and one of his friends said getting his finger caught by a young turtle was like «getting it caught in a car door.»)

Taxonomic assessment of Alligator Snapping Turtles (Chelydridae: Macrochelys), with the description of two new species from the southeastern United States

«They hardly ever come onto land, and they don't swim in seawater either,» he says, which helps explain how a distinct species arose, in the case of the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle, in just one river.

Most of the time he's on thelookout for female turtles — Blanding's, Common Snapping, and MidlandPainted — abundant with fertilized eggs and ready to unload them on thefirst warm day.

Thomas said the species» survival remains a concern due to its restricted range and Florida law prohibits the possession, capture and pursuit of alligator snapping turtles.

Conservation of coastal rivers of the northern Gulf of Mexico is vital to the survival of the alligator snapping turtle, including two recently discovered species, University of Florida scientists say.

Turtles — like this alligator snapping turtle Macrochelys temminckii — are a diverse group of animals with a hotly contested evolutionary history.

In October 2014, when Illinois Natural History Survey herpetologist Chris Phillips donned a wetsuit and dove to the bottom of Clear Creek in Union County, Illinois, he was looking for a young male alligator snapping turtle with a radio transmitter on its back.

«If we succeed with our project in introducing a new, viable population of alligator snapping turtles, it's likely that no one will see them,» Phillips said.

«Finding this individual does not indicate that there is a functional, stable population of wild alligator snapping turtles in Southern Illinois,» Kessler said.

For years, INHS researchers have conducted extensive trapping, and have called for citizen observations along Clear Creek for signs of wild alligator snapping turtles, but to no avail.

And his generals have unleashed thousands of intergalactic hounds — what look to be a cross between snapping turtles and WWE wrestlers — upon Wakanda.

Snapping turtles often more than double these smaller turtles in length and have a mass of 15 - 30 times that of the average eastern box turtle.

Robert Crosland, a well - loved science teacher at Preston, Idaho's Preston Junior High School is under investigation by local police and the school board after allegedly feeding a live puppy to one of the classroom pets, a snapping turtle.

Dr. Rahm has a special interest in reptile medicine and during his senior year in veterinary school was able to participate in externships with two prominent reptile medicine specialists, where he was able to assist in treating various animals such as alligators, sea turtles, Burmese pythons, and snapping turtles, while also taking part in trap / neuter and release efforts with the wild population of iguanas in the Florida Keys.

Feeding a puppy to an alligator snapping turtle does not illustrate the «circle of life.»

Past guests have had professional quality photography opportunities and have snapped stunning images of sea turtles, pufferfish, squid, spotted eagle rays, and several different species of octopus.

Ever wonder what an octopus looks like with a snake, a chicken, a penguin, and a snapping turtle instead of arms?

A digitally painted image of a genetically spliced creature (human being, canine, snapping turtle)

Florida's unusually long cold snap this month led to a record - high manatee count, an unprecedented rescue of 5,000 sea turtles and massive fish kills that prompted a few temporary fishing bans.

The scientific name of the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina, is a nod to the very long, agile, and «snake - like» neck of the species — angered snapping turtles are able to maneuver their necks with surprising speed and dexterity in a bid to ward off attackers with a powerful snap of their beak - like jaws.