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The Florida Softshell Turtle

27 August, 2024
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The Florida softshell turtle is sometimes confused with the snake-necked turtles of Australia or the Argentine snake-necked turtle of South America. However, there are differences not only in the obvious locales but also in

The Painted Turtle

30 January, 2024
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The painted turtle is the only North American aquatic turtle species that can be found throughout Canada, the United States, and Mexico. They extend from the west coast to the east coast of all 3 countries. Even though they

The Red-Crowned Roofed Turtle

26 January, 2024
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The red-crowned roofed turtle, aka Bengal roof turtle, hails from northeast India and Nepal. They prefer deeper flowing freshwater river habitats. Due to habitat segregation at the hands of dam constructions; harvesting

The Spotted Turtle

5 January, 2024
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The spotted turtle is a small, semi-aquatic turtle that hails from Canada and the eastern United States. They prefer marshes, flooded forests, wet meadows, bogs, and woodland stream habitats. Unfortunately, these little

The Northern River Terrapin

25 December, 2023
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The northern river terrapin, aka tuntung, only remains in India, Myanmar, and Bangladesh. They are extinct from their other locales. These aquatic turtles prefer large rivers, tidal areas in estuaries, and mangrove forests.

The Bog Turtle

11 December, 2023
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The bog turtle can be found in the eastern and northeastern United States. They prefer bogs, calcareous wetlands (locations containing lime), meadows, spring seeps, marshes, and habitats containing both wet and dry regions.

The Radiated Tortoise

31 August, 2023
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The radiated tortoise, aka sokake, hails from southern Madagascar. Although, they have been introduced to Réunion and Mauritius. In true tortoise fashion, they like it hot and dry. These tortoises prefer dry forests, thorn

The Wood Turtle

27 July, 2023
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The wood turtle hails from northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. Based on the season, they can be found dwelling in slow-moving streams with a sandy or muddy bottom and/or along heavily vegetated banks.

The Snake-Necked Turtle

9 February, 2023
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Living in and around the creeks, rivers, and freshwater & brackish water ponds along the Great Ocean Road, it’s the snake-necked turtle, aka eastern long-neck turtle. You can find them in southeastern Australia

The Yangtze Giant Softshelled Turtle

13 April, 2022
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The Yangtze giant softshelled turtle, aka the Shanghai softshell turtle, the speckled softshell turtle, red river giant softshell turtle, Swinhoe’s softshell turtle, 斑鳖, or 斑鱉, hails from