Sentences with phrase «snapping turtle»

Which of the two types of snapping turtles below is the largest one?

During this trip to the pond, we even saw a big snapping turtle!

We brought our furry snapping turtle home and instantly fell in love.

Researchers report the first sighting in 30 years of a wild alligator snapping turtle in Illinois.

«First wild alligator snapping turtle in Illinois since 1984.»

They do not start showing up in the fossil record until the early Miocene, but snapping turtles as a group go back to the late Cretaceous.»

Visitors at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum watch alligator snapping turtle Patsy McNasty in her new tank.

The Apalachicola alligator snapping turtle lives in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama — in and around the Apalachicola River — and developed as an independent species at least three million years ago.

You know what they say about snapping turtles!

We were at a place called the lower lobe and we were listening to birds and just there was this moment and oh my god, there was this huge snapping turtle.

«The incredibly detailed work of these researchers in bringing together the genetic, morphological, ecological, zoogeographic and paleontological data to clarify the relationships among the three alligator snapping turtle species should be emulated by other systematists and conservation biologists.»

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.

5 Things I've Seen On My Summer Runs Turtles... I usually don't see snapping turtles, he must have been relocated after Harvey.

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

Brace yourself for the brake response that grabs the carbon - ceramic discs with the vigor of a hungry snapping turtle.

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.

These day camps provide youngsters with an inside look at the day - to - day operations of HRA's shelter and medical center and give them an opportunity to meet and interact with dogs, cats, and small animals at our shelter, as well as a variety of «exotic» animals, ranging from snapping turtles and pythons to Madagascar hissing cockroaches.

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

An Idaho science teacher is under investigation after reportedly feeding a live puppy to a classroom snapping turtle while several students watched...

During the past week, lawmakers offered up bills to allow commercial spear fishing for striped bass, and to permit the hand - capturing and trapping of snapping turtles.

Snapping turtles as we know them first walked the earth some 40 million years ago, but they have been virtually unchanged over the past 215 million years of their evolution, according to Tortoise Trust.

Alligator snapping turtle Patsy McNasty in her new tank at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

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

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.

Alligator snapping turtle Patsy McNasty moved into a new 300 - gallon tank this week at Chicago's Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, where visitors attended a «housewarming» event for the 14 - pound turtle.

Cumby squared up nicely to the Fridge's charge, but his head disappeared between his own shoulders like a snapping turtle's.

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

Golfers at the Waterville Country Club just outside Waterville, Maine, are accustomed to the comings and goings, not to mention the droppings, of muskrats, snapping turtles, Canada geese, mallard ducks, even the occasional moose; but this summer things have gotten entirely out of hand.

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

Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's Celeste Troon presents Patsy McNasty, an alligator snapping turtle, on Jan. 19.

Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's Celeste Troon prepares to place Patsy McNasty, an alligator snapping turtle, in her new tank.

Patsy came to the museum six years ago as an ambassador for alligator snapping turtles, which are endangered in Illinois and other states.

One morning, staff at Chicago's Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum discovered that Patsy, a 14 - pound alligator snapping turtle, was alone in the 75 - gallon tank that she would soon outgrow.

Jan. 20: Alligator snapping turtle Patsy McNasty moved into a new 300 - gallon tank this week at Chicago's Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, where visitors attended a «housewarming» event for the 14 - pound turtle.

Before making his public debut, Dante, a 13 - year - old alligator snapping turtle (Macroclemys temminckii), needed to check in with the veterinary team at Shedd Aquarium.

«We're concerned about the decline in snapping turtles,» said Collette Adkins - Giese, an attorney with the national Center for Biological Diversity.

Cuomo signed a bill that designates service dogs — canines that are trained to assist the blind or otherwise disabled — as New York's official dog, the latest in a long line of state symbols that range from the state muffin (apple) to the state reptile (snapping turtle).

New York's official reptile is the snapping turtle.

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.

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.

Alligator snapping turtles are secretive and so slow - moving that algae grow on their backs.

In 2012, the Center for Biological Diversity and others filed a petition with the federal government to protect the alligator snapping turtle and fifty - two other reptiles and amphibians, under the Endangered Species Act.

The alligator snapping turtle is the largest river turtle in North America, weighing in at up to 200 pounds and living almost a century.