Silver beaked tortoise
This issues contains some updates to a few stories from Sunday. We have some video and photos of Boris who’s had a silver beak modeled with the help of 3D printing, some researchers require more funding to complete their findings on snapping turtle blood and others stories in the Conservation section. The captain photographed sitting on a Leatherback sea turtle is cleared and an entertainer runs foul of the law in Winnipeg; see the Crime & Punishment section.
Turtle News From Around the World
Conservation
After Brutal Attack, Boris the Tortoise Receives a Prosthetic Upper Jaw Thanks to 3D Printing.
Researchers Assess Snapping Turtle Health.
Born free: Baby sea turtles hatching along SC beaches.
Keep the driving limits on Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
Peer review of Johnston Point subdivision questions environmental impact assessment.
Tanzania: ‘Sir Alex’, Country’s Ancient Reptile That Still Lives in Arusha.
Crime & Punishment
DENR clears man who sat on endangered turtle.
Reptile Show Entertainer Gets Cold-Blooded Welcome from Winnipeg Bylaw Officers.
Lost & Found
Appeal after tortoise stolen from Exeter garden.
Did You Know…
Cryptodira is the taxonomic suborder of Testudines that includes most living tortoises and turtles. Cryptodira differ from Pleurodira (side-neck turtles) in that they lower their necks and pull the heads straight back into the shells; instead of folding their necks sideways along the body under the shells’ margins. They include among their species freshwater turtles, snapping turtles, tortoises, soft shell turtles, and sea turtles.
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Photo from 3dprint.com
