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One beautiful variation of an Eastern box turtle taken in Southern NJ.

Sun bathing in the Tortuguero National forest.

Platysternon megacephalum, Tennnessee Aquarium

Snorkelling with turtles, near Bridgetown. A fantastic experience.

The Turtle Pond at Central Park, New York.

That's where I first saw the turtle. I turned back and helped it to the side. A small to mid-sized beauty, I waited ten minutes for it to peek out and finally gave up and went on my way. A different type of turtle than I'm used to seeing.

Found this guy crossing Transit Rd near Lossen at 2PM. Stoped and picked him up before he became a member of the road kill gang. Took him home cleaned him off and after almost loosing a finger turned him loose in Caz creek.

Painted Turtles are the most common and widely distributed of all turtles in the United States. Notice how far forward the eyes are on his little noggin. This helps him to see what going on above the water while exposing as little of his body as possible.

Spiny Softshell Turtle (female) photographed at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

Terrapene carolina carolina

May, 2012. New Jersey.

A beautiful female Eastern Box Turtle crosses a busy rural road in New Jersey. The Garden State is the most densely populated state in the country and in turn many of its roads carry unusually high traffic volume. This coupled with fragmented habitat makes Eastern Box Turtles exceptionally vulnerable to road mortality. The Eastern Box Turtle is listed as a Species of Special Concern in New Jersey.

This little guy stopped by for a visit today.

Sea turtles are among the oldest creatures on earth and have remained essentially unchanged for 110 million years.The loggerhead sea turtle is the world's largest hard-shelled turtle and can weigh up to 1500 lbs.

I noticed this snapping turtle as I was driving into my neighborhood. It looked like she was trying to find a place to lay her eggs, but when I came back later, I didn't see any.

She was on the edge of a field, so she was probably about to (or just did) lay eggs.

Wildlife Category

Title of Photo: Snapping Turtle

Subject: Snapping Turtle

Photographer: Steve Gasaway

Laying eggs in the dirt parking lot. In Elm Creek Park Preserve.

Susanne Heid

Tenerife, Canary Islands

SeaLife DC1400 underwater camera

SeaLife has been granted the rights to this image.

(Pseudemys rubriventris) The northern red-bellied turtle or American red-bellied turtle . It is endemic to the United States. The current range of the red-bellied cooter includes a colony in Massachusetts which was previously a separate species (Pseudemys rubriventris bangsii) as well as the coastal areas of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.

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Common name: Box turtle

species: Terrapene carolina carolina

Photo: Koulang Chey

USA, 2008

Terrapene carolina bauri

A Florida Box Turtle seen at Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park, (Okeechobee County)

Gonzalez, our tortoise

Female Eastern Box Turtle found right outside my door at twilight.

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Turtles in Central Park in NYC

yellow eye surgeon fish and gold rimmed surgeon fish clean the shell of a green sea turtle

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This girl was one of three that was crossing the road. She was the only survivor by the time John saw her, stopped, and brought her to the safety of the ponds at home. She either already had laid, or was ready to lay, her eggs. She moved very, very fast. John put her in Pond 3.

Baby FL turtle sunning on a log in the everglades.

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in a fountain in Santa Barbara