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Deirochelyine Turtles

Turtwig has found a new friend

Turtwig has found a new friend.

#Pokemon

(I had such a hard time trying to get it to face the right direction, which is why it’s still a little bit off. At least I didn’t need to worry about the real turtle wandering away while I set up the shot.)

Turtwig has found a new friend.#Pokemon (I had such a hard time trying to ...

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Deirochelyine Turtles

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Love this headline: “Turtles the size of a car once roamed the Earth. Scientists just found …

Love this headline:

“Turtles the size of a car once roamed the Earth. Scientists just found their fossils.”

“The hulking reptile was about 100 times the size of its closest living relative, the Amazon river turtle, and twice the size of the largest living turtle, the marine leatherback, the researchers estimated.”

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At the Japanese Garden section of the park. There is a sign warning about not taking the animals, including the koi (which are deliberately stocked, I’m sure) and the turtles, though it’s possible the turtles may have been simply released here as former pets rather than deliberately stocked.

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Deirochelyine Turtles

It’s not often I see one of these turtles *out* of the pond.

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Florida Softshell Turtle (Wilderness Park)

American Softshell Turtles

I don’t know if these turtles are actually wild or stocked. (I assume the fish are stocked, but the ducks are just visiting!) But this looks like a different type of turtle than the ones I saw on a visit a couple of years later.

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Identified on iNaturalist as a Florida Softshell, most likely a released pet.