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Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia Mydas)

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Thanks to the donation of a conservation easement by The Nature Conservancy, Mountain Bogs National Wildlife Refuge was established in April, 2015. Bog conservation partners gathered in North Carolina

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The Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is researching the diamondback terrapin turtle, whose habitat is likely to be inundated as the sea rises. Photo by Christina Mohrmann/Grand Bay NERR.

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Sarracenia purpurea, the purple pitcherplant; Liberty Co. FL USA

Two Businessmen Brainstorming Next Big Idea

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Animal nature rain

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Taking a break after a long crawl!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Long way to go...

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

Large Export Dish, c. 1660-1670, Arita, hard-paste porcelain with overglaze enamels - Gardiner Museum, Toronto - DSC00501

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Image title: Pseudemys rubriventris northern red bellied crooter turtle
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Image title: Pseudemys rubriventris basking northern red bellied crooters turtles
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February 15, 2012- Bell City, Louisiana: The lone Red Eared Turtle on the bank of a levee. Photo by Corey Douglas www.fws.gov/swlarefugecomplex

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Thanks to the donation of a conservation easement by The Nature Conservancy, Mountain Bogs National Wildlife Refuge was established in April, 2015. Bog conservation partners gathered in North Carolina

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Image title: Diamond terrapin turtle reptile malaclemys terrapin
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Badge of the Solomon Islands (1947–1956)

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In May, bog conservationists from Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia convened in the north Georgia mountains for the spring, 2014 meeting of the Bog Learning Network. The event provided an opportu

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Blason Chaland

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island
The world is sooooo big!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Climbing all the ripples and touching wet sand for the first time!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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Kemps Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys Kempii)

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Kemps Ridley Turtle Hatchling (Lepidochelys Kempii)

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Turtle with crocodile bite marks, Eocene, Green River Formation, Kemmerer, Lincoln County, Wyoming, USA - Houston Museum of Natural Science - DSC02006

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Hard to find in the mixed texture of the wet sand.

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

November 5, 2010 - Natchitoches, LA
This is the only resident snapper at the hatchery, and he is an albino!

Photographer: Daniel Mayer

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February 15, 2012- Bell City, Louisiana: Five Red Eared Turtles on a log enjoying their day. Photo by Corey Douglas www.fws.gov/swlarefugecomplex

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Claesz., Pieter - Still Life with Musical Instruments - 1623

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Inro, Japan, 18th-19th century - Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro - Coimbra, Portugal - DSC00297

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
See how faint the trail is that he leaves behind?

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

Description: Shells are black with small yellow spots and adults reach 4 – 5“ in length. Males have black or tan chins and yellow eyes, while females have yellow chins and orange eyes. Skin on the hea

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Adult female Diamondback turtle being balanced on a NOAA employee's arm.

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Oblong Turtle (Chelodina Oblonga)

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Egypt water life

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
One mountain of dead, dry marsh grass down and oh so many more to go!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Closeup of a hatchling sliding over the ripples of a tide pool. This is his first comparison to the waves that await him.

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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Flag of the Solomon Islands (1947–1956)

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Our perspective of the turtle's voyage.

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
It's hatchling season! The babies are emerging and ready to tackle the many challenges that come their way! This little Loggerhead is the first one out of the nest

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This nest was found and marked by volunteers patrolling Carolina Beach in North Carolina. On August 7, a crowd gathered at an adjacent nest that was expected to hatch that night but it didn't. Whil

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Turtle Egg Relocation Box

Image title: Manatee bearing scars on back from boat propeller
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Scientific name: Dermochelys coriacea
Common name Spanish: Tinglar
Photo by Al Woodson, USFWS volunteer
Location, Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge, US Virgin Islands

More information: ecos.fw

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
This Loggerhead baby is taking his time to adjust to his new surroundings and strengthen his muscles before his long journey to the middle of the Atlantic. Once in

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Good morning! The hatchlings use the limited space in the "neck" of the lighbulb shaped nest and each others' backs to squeeze and climb out of the chamber.

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
The gentle warmth of the early morning sand comforts a young Loggerhead emerging from the nest, allowing the baby to rest and assess it's environment. At any give

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Buddhist reliquary inthe form of a miniature sarcophagus, with dragon, phoenix, tiger, and turtle, purportedly from Henan province, Tang dynasty, 8th century, bronze with gilding - Freer Gallery of Art - DSC05650

bronze objects with gilding self-published work

Piscium, serpentum, insectorum, aliorumque nonnullorum animalum nec non plantarum quarundam imagines :quas Marcus Catesby in posteriore parte splendidi illius operis quo Carolinae Floridae et Bahamens

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Świętego Ducha 111-127 Gdańsk

architecture city

July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
See how well Loggerheads camouflage with the wrack line on the beach? This mama just finished laying her nest and is now covering it from predators such as wild h

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
Even though the initial waves have washed the carapace clean, this female loggerhead is on her way out into the Atlantic Ocean to mate again. She weighs close to

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
It's a long haul, but every step is invaluable to the hatchling's survival. The hatchlings imprint the beach as they walk using the magnetic field to return 35 yea

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Resting in the shade before stretching his flippers, this baby needs to be alert to bypass all of the obstacles that await him on his journey to adulthood.

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Grazing Turtle

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Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta Caretta)

cheloniidae caretta

US Navy 090513-N-0535P-032 KEKAHA, Hawaii (May 13, 2009) - Capt. Aaron Cudnohufsky, left, commanding officer of the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, along with other volunteers removes an injured green sea turtle

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
The spikes on the turtle's carapace or shell will eventually smooth out as the scutes, little "patches", grow over time.

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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Mola blouse, Kuna peoples, San Blas Islands, Panama, 20th century, cotton, polyester - Fernbank Museum of Natural History - DSC09997

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Cartoon for Burgess Series by Harrison Cady, view 1, 1916, published in Life magazine, September 6, 1917, ink and wash on paper - New Britain Museum of American Art - DSC09092

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Cartoon for Burgess Series by Harrison Cady, view 2, 1916, published in Life magazine, September 6, 1917, ink and wash on paper - New Britain Museum of American Art - DSC09101

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Snapping turtle effigy bowl from Millbury, Transitional Archaic Phase, c. 4000-2700 years ago, steatite (soapstone) - Robbins Museum - Middleborough, Massachusetts - DSC03694

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Turtle and Bamboo, by Nagasawa Rosetsu, Japan, Edo period, 1787-1799 AD, folding fan with ink and light color on paper - Sackler Museum - Harvard University - DSC01938

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Even though most nests hatch at night to avoid mammalian predators, these little guys seem to camouflage well enough in the wrack line. Nevertheless, this place is

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Seaside beach tour

July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
She's crawled. She's dug. She's laid. She's covered. Now she returns to the warm Atlantic waters to breed again so she can lay more nests. A Loggerhead typically

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Contemplating his next move. He is so tiny compared to the little holes in the sand and the fine lines left by the last waves.

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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Loggerhead Turtle Hatchling (Caretta Caretta)

cheloniidae caretta

Scientific name: Chelonia mydasCommon name Spanish: Peje blanco, tortuga verde
Photo: Caroline S. Rogers, USGSStatus: Threatened, Listed on July 28, 1978
For more information: ecos.fws.gov/speciesProf

Leatherback Turtle (Dermochelys Coriacea)

dermochelyidae chordata

July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
The mother Loggerhead cries salt water tears as she lays her eggs in the white sands on Blackbeard Island. She will never again return to check on her eggs, but m

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Scientific name: Chelonia mydasCommon name Spanish: Peje blanco, tortuga verde
Photo: Caroline S. Rogers, USGSStatus: Threatened, Listed on July 28, 1978
For more information: ecos.fws.gov/speciesProf

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Turtle Nest Anti Predatory Cage

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Flatback Sea Turtle Adult (Natator Depressa)

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Flatback Sea Turtle Hatchling (Natator Depressa)

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Leatherback Turtle Hatchling (Dermochelys Coriacea)

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Olive Ridley Turtle Adult (Lepidochelys Olivacea)

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Olive Ridley Turtle Hatchling (Lepidochelys Olivacea)

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USMC TBF and RNZAF P-40 over Espiritu Santo c1944

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July 23, 2010 - Gulf Breeze, Florida. Lorna Patrick (Deputy Project Leader of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Panama City, Florida, Ecological Services and Fisheries Resources Office), center and

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island
Wind them up and watch them go! Their "wind up" comes from their own yolks they absorb to power them with enough energy for the next 48 hours. They will need every las

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The turtles, snakes, frogs and other reptiles and amphibians of New England and the north, Edward Knobel

engravings of testudines glyptemys insculpta

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
This hatchling has already made it farther in life than a lot of his siblings and peers. His egg developed successfully without mutations. He has overcome the thre

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Painted Turtle (Chrysemys Picta)

chrysemys chordata

Mercury Transforming Chelone into a Turtle, by Filippo Lauri, Rome, c. 1671, oil on canvas - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC07851

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
This dawn nester on Blackbeard Island lays her eggs in the sand after "body pitting" and digging an inverted light bulb shaped nest. "Body pitting" is when the fe

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Snapping Turtle (Chelydra Serpentina)

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Hawksbill Turtle Hatchling (Eretmochelys Imbricata)

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The turtles, snakes, frogs and other reptiles and amphibians of New England and the north, Edward Knobel

engravings of testudines caretta caretta

The turtles, snakes, frogs and other reptiles and amphibians of New England and the north, Edward Knobel

engravings of testudines sternotherus odoratus

The turtles, snakes, frogs and other reptiles and amphibians of New England and the north, Edward Knobel

engravings of testudines macrochelys temminckii

Hawksbill Turtle Adult (Eretmochelys Imbricata)

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Summer sand parasol

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Scientific name: Eritmochelys imbricata. Spanish: Carey de Concha. Status: Endangered. Listed on June 2, 1970
Photo by Caroline S. Rogers, available through NOAA

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The turtles, snakes, frogs and other reptiles and amphibians of New England and the north, Edward Knobel

engravings of testudines terrapene carolina

The turtles, snakes, frogs and other reptiles and amphibians of New England and the north, Edward Knobel

engravings of testudines clemmys guttata

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