I almost stepped on this cute little guy. I am glad it wasn't a snake.

caroline was driving and saw this fellow crossing the road, so she saved him

Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur) on wires over scrubland next to the garden.

One of my friends tells me this is a terrapin, not a turtle.

Either way, it looked very pretty while it sunned itself...

I found this little painted turtle while out for a walk on my lunch break - he is about the size of a quarter. See the first pic in this set for a comparison shot .

Clemmys guttata

April, 2012. Southwest Michigan.

Found this guy in the park. He wouldn't come out of his shell. Shy, I guess.

EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

Turtle October 2004 Nosy Be Madagascar

Spotted Turtle

Picture Taken: June, 2009.

At the flea market I found this ceramic turtle. It is smaller than the palm of my hand and made out of earthenware and lightly decorated with ochre and pigments. What is really cool about this little turtle is that the head, neck, and legs are separate pieces of clay from the shell. So the turtle is fully articulated in the same way that a real turtle is. The head can retract and the legs move inside the shell.

Tennessee Aquarium. Hatched 21 May from a clutch of eggs laid 2 March. Only one of the ten eggs was viable.

red eared sliders and black wood turtle

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Taken at Mauna Kea Beach on the Big Island of Hawaii

Common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina ) @Wesselman Woods Nature Center, Evansville IN 2:30PM CDT 9/22/2013

Turtle 1: I'm having a suntan!

Turtle 2: Aoh not in the mood, It's too early, to the summer!

360 days of B&W photography Day 92 April 2nd, 2013.

It was crossing the road near Exeter, NH, so I helped it along.

Some friends are visiting and they wanted to see turtles, so we went and found some turtles @ 4 mile. This one was particularly mellow and we got to hang out for a while.

I wish that I could run very fast like turtles.

Sealife Centre Turtle - seems curious as to what I am doing and smiling for the camera!

Scarborough Sealife Centre

July 2012

. . . exhibiting a serious lack of trust.

A box turtle will retract its legs and head into its shell when in danger. This guy did just that as I moved him away from the road.

This was at a different turtle sanctuary near unawatuna. We'd ACTUALLY gone out that afternoon to see some stilt fishermen, except when we got there there were these two guys who said they'd get up on the stilts and pretend to fish so we could take a photo, if we paid them. I thought this was frankly ridiculous, and the water was... revolting - apparently there'd been an oil spill but it looked like sewerage - nothing that any living fish would be found in - so yeah, i didn't take a photo. Then we saw this place so decided to stop and have a look.

Anyone know why type of turtle this is?

This turtle didn't pick a very good spot to lay her eggs. Right at the edge of a parking area. Taken on the Greene County May Day Count at Goose Pond on 5/08/10.

Image taken at Castle Rock, Komodo, Indonesia

My little russian turtle. I find him so nice and I love this amazing lifeform.

A sea Turtle Off the reef of Lady Musgrave Island

Turtle at the Baltimore Aquarium

They seem to be doing something very odd.

Home Garden Turtle

Turtles from "Brazilian Tamar Project" walking on her first day of life to the sea.

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First of the year Eastern Box Turtle. Seen crossing our driveway this morning.

Caught sight of this Eastern Box Turtle grazing in a grass patch above our driveway Sunday. First one I had seen around here. When I finally brought the mower around to where he had been, he was gone. Hope he looked twice before crossing our street.

When you look at him enlarged on black background, appears he might have forgotten to wash his face before he left the house that morning.

exotic wildlife shoot