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A two-headed turtle was released into the ocean with about 50 other turtles as part of a Broward County, Florida hatching turtle rescue program on July 19, 2012. [citation needed] A two-headed turtle named Thelma and Louise was born at the San Antonio Zoo on June 18, 2013. [72]
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Asian box turtles are the most heavily trafficked turtles in the world. They are captured and sold as food to China, and to the United States as pets. Nancy Karraker, a University of Rhode Island associate professor, has said "Trafficking in turtles is a major issue in Southeast Asia, and it's important that we understand the key ecological roles that species like this box turtle play before ...
A group of eggs is known as a clutch and a female black soft shelled turtle can lay anywhere between 10 and 38 eggs in her clutch. The baby turtles will grow in their eggs for 92–108 days before hatching. [12] Recently the hatching rate for this specific species has been decreasing due to these species being endangered.
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The eggs, which are slightly over 2.5 cm (1 in) long, hatch 13 to 19 weeks later. The hatchlings are about 2.5 cm (1 inch) in straight carapace length and, unlike the adult turtles, have keeled carapaces.
Head moderate; snout (on the skull) about as long as the diameter of the orbit; interorbital region, in the adult, considerably narrower than the nasal fossa; postorbital arch one third to one half the greatest diameter of the orbit; mandible with the inner edge strongly raised, forming a sharp ridge, which sends off a short perpendicular ...