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Elseya irwinii, the Irwin’s turtle!!!! Steve Irwin’s birthday is on February 22nd!!! He would have been 64 this year. Rest In Peace to a legend.
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It's another PBS Eons commission roundup day!
The metatherian mammals Pucadelphys and Khasia, and lineart of the sparassodont Paraborhyaena, from "How South America Made the Marsupials"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5doyrUWFbE
The dyrosaurid crocodyliform Acherontisuchus and the bothremydid turtle Puentemys, from "How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-hDNbM-WLk
The early penguin Waimanu and the giant penguin Anthropornis, from "When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMArjGQwLvY
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Mata Mata Chelus fimbriata
Can you do a Mata Mata? Or any turtle really :)
Who could pass up a chance to share the mata mata!! Magnificent choice.
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Both photos thanks to the Smithsonian's Reptile Discovery Center.
Bothremydids were an extinct group of side-necked turtles that existed from the late Cretaceous to the early Miocene, between about 100 and 20 million years ago. Found across most of the world (with the exception of Antarctica and Australia) they were a diverse group occupying a range of ecological niches, inhabiting both freshwater and near-shore marine habitats.
Although their fossils are mainly just fragmentary remains like pieces of shell, Chupacabrachelys complexus here is actually known from a fairly complete skeleton.
Living in what is now western Texas, USA, during the late Cretaceous (~75 mya), it was an average-sized member of the group at around 1m long (3'3") and was probably marine, swimming around in the shallow tropical waters of the Western Interior Seaway.
It had a particularly unusual skull for a turtle, narrow and triangular and slightly flattened, with elongated eye sockets. The paleontologists who described Chupacabrachelys thought the overall shape was vaguely reminiscent of a canid, and so that ended up inspiring its name — a reference to the mangy coyotes that are occasionally mistaken for the mythical chupacabra.
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Yellow-spotted Amazon River Turtle (Podocnemis unifilis) - (c) SaritaWolf - please do not repost
An eastern long-necked turtle enters a tunnel under a fence in Booderee Botanic Gardens, New South Wales, Australia. Conservationists there have had to innovate in order to keep their population of endangered quolls safely fenced off from foxes, without restricting access to the turtles’ main water source. So far the tunnels have been a success -Photograph: WWF-Australia
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#622 - Chelodina (Macrodiremys) colliei - Southwestern Snake-necked Turtle
One of the reasons I've got so many species in my list of Perth wildlife is the simple fact that SW Australia is ridiculously species-diverse. The Southwest Australia Ecoregion is one of the world's 34 Biodiversity Hotspots. And Perth itself does pretty well - it's got 71 species of reptile within the city limits, which is a gigantic number for an urbanised area. This article at WWF has a few more details.
The Southwestern Snake-necked Turtle is a fairly common species - certainly doing better than the critically endangered Western Swamp Turtle which is ONLY found around Perth - but the taxonomic history is a bit complicated. For one thing it's only recently been split off from the genus Chelodina, and its other common name Oblong Turtle is a holdover from confusion with the Northern Snake-necked Turtle, Chelodina oblonga.
Either way, the snake-necked turtles are carnivores that hide and then lunge at passing fish and invertebrates with a gape attack. Despite that, not at all aggressive, and will much prefer to flail helplessly if handled, rather than bite.
I found this one lumbering noisily through undergrowth near a small pond - they tend to wander in breeding season, which is bad news near roads.
