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Headed up hill in NJ

Snapping Turtle

Kensington Metro Park, MI

Turtle, Courtesy of Papa K

Native North Carolina turtle at the NC Aquarium in Manteo.

Turtle hospital tour

This turtle was crossing the road.

Scuba Diving at Sipadan

Another turtle shot....

Snapping Turtle

Snorkelen met zeeschildpadden

We spotted this small turtle resting at the edge of the lake.

In the UCLA Botanical Garden

Taken at a park in Twinsburg Ohio

Platysternon megacephalum, Tennnessee Aquarium

turtle on rock

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

Sun bathing in the Tortuguero National forest.

Alligator Snapping Turtle; Baker Co, GA

Snorkelling with turtles, near Bridgetown. A fantastic experience.

Loggerhead Sea Turtles are among the many endangered species of the world. Their brightly colored and less camouflaged shells lend a danger from predators. Humans impose a great deal of endangerment by illegal trade and killing of these beautiful animals

@Horseshoe Reef, O'ahu, HI

I swear that the turtle was posing for me. Guess I have a knack for talking to the animals?

The Turtle Pond at Central Park, New York.

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

Look at the cute face! These are a Threatened species in Illinois. I was at a conference in northern Illinois a few years back and we got to visit a site where they are doing research on these cool (and super cute) turtles. Emydoidea blandingii, Emydidae. Northern Illinois, Summer 2010.

This turtle's shell was about 15 inches long.

Click on All Sizes to see Largest Photo.

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.

watercolor. yet another sea turtle.

when I used to scuba dive I always enjoyed visits by turtles.They would swim alongside, curious,their eyes inscrutable and shell opalescent . Always a magical experience

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.

(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.

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.

Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina)

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.

Box Turtle in the yard. Box Turtles look at you like they hate you. They probably do.

Susanne Heid

Tenerife, Canary Islands

SeaLife DC1400 underwater camera

SeaLife has been granted the rights to this image.