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The book tells the story of a snapping turtle that hatches near the headwaters of the Mississippi River. She then goes on a journey down the river to Louisiana and the river's delta as the massive watercourse empties into the Gulf of Mexico. The turtle gets to see much of the Midwestern United States and American South along her way.
A book about Carr entitled The Man Who Saved Sea Turtles: Archie Carr and the Origins of Conservation was published in 2007 by Oxford University Press. This book was written by Frederick R. Davis, Assistant Professor of History at the Florida State University. Carr's work is referenced in the 1985 romantic-drama film Turtle Diary.
“My Life in the Sea: The Diving Memoirs of Norine Rouse” also features indispensable historical and environmental context provided by author Lawrence Wood, a 30-year Florida resident, 20-year ...
Sea Turtles and endangered species – a book for children by Youmna Jazzar Medlej and Joumana Medlej, published in 2007 by Cedarseed in Arabic, English and French, ISBN 978-9953-0-1054-0; The Orange House – documentary film by Ramin Francis Assadi, released in 2011; Testimony of Resistance – Mona Khalil – 12-minute interview from 2017
The oldest version of the Aspidochelone legend is found in the Physiologus (2nd century AD) : [1]. There is a monster in the sea which in Greek is called aspidochelone, in Latin "asp-turtle"; it is a great whale, that has what appear to be beaches on its hide, like those from the sea-shore.
Dermochelyidae is a family of sea turtles which has seven extinct genera and one extant genus, containing one living species, the leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea). The oldest fossils of the group date to the Late Cretaceous .
Americhelydia is a clade of turtles that consists of sea turtles, snapping turtles, the Central American river turtle and mud turtles, supported by several lines of molecular work. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Prior to these studies some morphological and developmental work have considered sea turtles to be basal members of Cryptodira and kinosternids ...
Urashima Tarō and princess of Horai, by Matsuki Heikichi (1899) Urashima Tarō (浦島 太郎) is the protagonist of a Japanese fairy tale (otogi banashi), who, in a typical modern version, is a fisherman rewarded for rescuing a sea turtle, and carried on its back to the Dragon Palace (Ryūgū-jō) beneath the sea.