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Introduction1
Walter Jahn (YouTube Channel)
Online Biology Library (Official Website)
Dictionary
turtle : any of an order (Testudines synonym Chelonia) of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine reptiles that have a toothless horny beak and a shell of bony dermal plates usually covered with horny shields enclosing the trunk and into which the head, limbs, and tail usually may be withdrawn — Webster See also OneLook
Encyclopedia
Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines (or Chelonii) characterised by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield. The order Testudines includes both extant (living) and extinct species. The earliest known members of this group date from 157 million years ago, making turtles one of the oldest reptile groups and a more ancient group than snakes or crocodilians. Of the 327 known species alive today, some are highly endangered. Turtles are ectotherms—animals commonly called cold-blooded—meaning that their internal temperature varies according to the ambient environment. However, because of their high metabolic rate, leatherback sea turtles have a body temperature that is noticeably higher than that of the surrounding water. — Wikipedia
Turtle (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Turtles (One Zoom)
Testudines (Catalogue of Life)
Turtle (WolframAlpha)
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Innovation
Science
Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and the tuataras). Birds, which are cladistically included within Reptilia, are traditionally excluded here; the scientific study of birds is the subject of ornithology. Thus, the definition of herpetology can be more precisely stated as the study of ectothermic (cold-blooded) tetrapods. Under this definition “herps” (or sometimes “herptiles” or “herpetofauna”) exclude fish, but it is not uncommon for herpetological and ichthyological scientific societies to collaborate. — Wikipedia
Herpetology (Encyclopædia Britannica)
126 questions with answers in Herpetology (Research Gate)
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Preservation
Library
DDC: 597.92 Turtles (Library Thing)
Subject: Turtles (Library Thing)
Subject: Turtles (Open Library)
LCC: QL 666.C5 Turtles (UPenn Online Books)
Subject: Turtles (UPenn Online Books)
LCC: QL 666.C5 Turtles (Library of Congress)
Subject: Turtles (Library of Congress)
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Participation
Education
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Community
Occupation
Sam Noble Museum (YouTube Channel)
Sam Noble Museum (Official Website)
How to be a Herpetologist (Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles)
Organization
World Congress of Herpetology
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
The Herpetologists’ League
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Zoological Association of America
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
News
Journal of Herpetology (Society for Study of Amphibians and Reptiles)
Herpetologica (The Herpetologists’ League)
Ichthyology & Herpetology (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists)
Herpetology (Nature)
Turtles (EurekaAlert, American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Turtles (bioRxiv: Preprint Server for Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Turtles (Science Daily)
Turtles (Science News)
Turtles (Phys.org)
Turtles (NPR Archives)
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Notes
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