Many cultures tell fascinating tales about turtles. Several North American Native tribes speak of a great turtle floating in a primal sea, before there was any land. Here lived all the other animals ...

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Identification of turtles -- Key to the turtles of the United States and Canada -- Chelydridae: snapping turtles -- Chelydra serpentina, snapping turtle -- Macroclemys temminckii, alligator snapping ...

If you think you’ve been seeing a lot of turtles – box turtles, snapping turtles, wood turtles and others – on the road and maybe in your backyard in the last few weeks, you’re probably right. It’s ...