These turtles can weight up to 40lbs and it has a leaf shape head. when a fish approaches it, it suddenly opens its wide mouth and 'vacuums' the prey in. pretty cool right? i seriously thought it was a rock when i saw it lol.

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This little guy was possibly the quickest turtle I've seen. He barely paused to let me take a picture of him.

Taken at the Joseph L. Popp Jr. Butterfly Conservatory.

www.poppbutterflyconservatory.com/

Heosemys depressa, Knoxville Zoo

Diving with turtles on the USAT Liberty Wreck - Open Water course on July 19, 2011

A turtle sitting on submerged branch in the Mokelumne River in California's Central Valley. One of my best turtle pictures! Another unusually calm critter.

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This is another flash aided shot.

Burke County, North Carolina

Another turtle encounter.

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Ocean Adventure

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One of several we saw.

"Mum, look, that one's trying to crawl on the other one's back," said a young boy. Reptile House at the Glasshouse in Queen's Park, Glasgow. (May, 2010)

Turtle crossing the road in Indiana. Scott carried him to safety..

Giant Sea Turtle

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Rain Forest aviary

Cleveland metroparks Zoo

Seen indistinctly through the leaves

I found this Painted Turtle just north of Seattle, Washington in the middle of a busy street during rush hour. Here he is in the plastic tub that I had in my car. We released him into the wild away from roadways.

This is one of my favorites. Not as macro as some - but the blue/tan background feels so relaxing.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_turtle

A turtle eating some Pineapple!

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Parque Municipal Summit

Panama (Amérique centrale)

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Buncombe County, North Carolina

Male Glyptemys muhlenbergii, Tennessee Aquarium

Terrapene carolina bauri (Florida Box Turtle)

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June evening at Lake Maria State Park, MN. See a painted turtle in the grass and get out to get a few photos and expect it to run off like most painted turtles do, but it didn't. It was digging in the ground a hole and thought it was strange and then the first egg popped into the hole and watched her drop 8 eggs into the hole and then covered the hole and walked back to the lake.

River Cooter

It's hard to make out the actual size from these photos, but this guy's shell was about 13 inches long. Head to tail he is probably closer to 18 inches.

Didn't want to mess with him too much as we weren't certain if he was a snapping turtle or not (he's not; snapping turtles look a whole lot meaner). Went inside for a bit as humidity was hovering around a billion percent and when we checked again he had vanished.

(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 guess this is probably a "Red-eared Slider", as it looks the same as my last turtle shot, which I looked up at the time.

Basking in the little bit of sun at Mill Lake, Abbotsford, B.C. British Columbia's only remaining pond turtle species. Considered vulnerable.