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How To Help Your Sick Turtle

How can you tell if your turtle is sick? Some obvious signs of a sick turtle include: lethargic movement, or just not moving not eating changes in shell - luster, growths, deformations cloudy eyes, or...

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Discover the Eastern Box Turtle

When you think of a turtle you may just be thinking of the Eastern Box Turtle, known for it's distinctive colourful appearance and it's unique ability to fold itself up into a 'box' when it feels...

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Types of Turtles

Types of Turtles. Fast facts about on the types of turtles.

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Turtle Tanks

This is a great starter guide to pet turtle and their turtle tanks. It explains what you eill need for the tanks and how to set it all up.

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North American Box Turtles Book Review

Paleo buffs are likely familiar with some of the large turtles that populated the Cretaceous seas of North America. Forms such as the gigantic Protostega and Archelon should ring a bell. However,...

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Facts about Turtles

Here are some interesting facts about turtles and their cousins tortoises. I hope you are going to like these facts. Leatherbacks (Dermochelys coriacea) are the largest of living chelonians. The biggest...

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This captive bred turtle is able to live its life as close to wild as possible.  That is the best situation for a pet box turtle. If you see a box turtle in the wild, don't remove it from its wild home. It will always long for it and try to return.66

Box Turtles in the Yard

This captive bred turtle is able to live its life as close to wild as possible. That is the best situation for a pet box turtle. If you see a box turtle in the wild, don't remove it from its wild home. It...

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Turtle - Turtle Care - Turtle Feeding

Turtles need constant access to water or they will die. There are different species of turtles like box turtles, basking turtles, mud turtles and sea turtles.There are more than 270 kinds of turtles. Turtles have been on earth for about 230 million years. Studies show that turtles were on earth even before dinosaurs.Turtles differ in sizes. For e.g. the Leatherback sea Turtle is the largest turtle measuring around 95 inches. The Bog Turtle is the smallest measuring only 4 inches.

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