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06 Dec 2008, 2:11 pm

WOW!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... graph.html

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06 Dec 2008, 2:12 pm

tuuurtle XD


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06 Dec 2008, 2:32 pm

http://artsonearth.com/2008/11/turtle-and-hippo.html

Did you guys see this article of a turtle and a hippo? Pretty cute.

The pics speak a thousand words.... :P


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06 Dec 2008, 2:36 pm

Don't mean to sound snobby, but it's actually a tortoise, not a turtle. Turtles and tortoises are different types of chelonians.



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06 Dec 2008, 3:12 pm

it's technically a reptile, but I give you points for the age, though.



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06 Dec 2008, 3:36 pm

A chelonian is a type of reptile. The class is reptilia. Chelonia is the superorder (taxonomy is getting pretty complicated these days). To make things more complicated, chelonia was once the name of the order, not the superorder, but this was changed recently. Now the order is called testudines. Breif description:

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Turtles, tortoises, and terrapins are ectothermic reptiles, most of whose body is shielded by a special bony or cartilagenous shell developed from their ribs. They belong to an anapsid lineage, as can be seen from their solid skullcap. About 300 species are alive today; some are highly endangered.


Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Superclass: Tetrapoda

Class: Reptilia

Subclass: Anapsida

Superorder: Chelonia
(Macartney, 1802)

Order: Testudines
(Linnaeus, 1758)



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06 Dec 2008, 9:14 pm

That's amazing!



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06 Dec 2008, 10:08 pm

Live long and prosper topic

Slow and steady wins the age race. :lol:


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06 Dec 2008, 10:42 pm

release_the_bats wrote:
A chelonian is a type of reptile. The class is reptilia. Chelonia is the superorder (taxonomy is getting pretty complicated these days). To make things more complicated, chelonia was once the name of the order, not the superorder, but this was changed recently. Now the order is called testudines. Breif description:

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Turtles, tortoises, and terrapins are ectothermic reptiles, most of whose body is shielded by a special bony or cartilagenous shell developed from their ribs. They belong to an anapsid lineage, as can be seen from their solid skullcap. About 300 species are alive today; some are highly endangered.


Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Superclass: Tetrapoda

Class: Reptilia

Subclass: Anapsida

Superorder: Chelonia
(Macartney, 1802)

Order: Testudines
(Linnaeus, 1758)


Wow, blast from the zoology past!
Are you in class now, or just really good at remembering your taxonomy?



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06 Dec 2008, 11:13 pm

Testudo, from the Latin for tortise.

Also a legionary method for assailing forts; the front row with shields forward, the rest with shields overhead.

More useless facts from Pakled...;)



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07 Dec 2008, 2:58 am

how do they know its the worlds oldestr..i mean really?



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07 Dec 2008, 5:09 am

LKL wrote:
release_the_bats wrote:
A chelonian is a type of reptile. The class is reptilia. Chelonia is the superorder (taxonomy is getting pretty complicated these days). To make things more complicated, chelonia was once the name of the order, not the superorder, but this was changed recently. Now the order is called testudines. Breif description:

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Turtles, tortoises, and terrapins are ectothermic reptiles, most of whose body is shielded by a special bony or cartilagenous shell developed from their ribs. They belong to an anapsid lineage, as can be seen from their solid skullcap. About 300 species are alive today; some are highly endangered.


Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Superclass: Tetrapoda

Class: Reptilia

Subclass: Anapsida

Superorder: Chelonia
(Macartney, 1802)

Order: Testudines
(Linnaeus, 1758)


Wow, blast from the zoology past!
Are you in class now, or just really good at remembering your taxonomy?


I'm not in class. I'm just a regular aspie with an obsession. :lol:

I like to read about zoology, including taxonomy, in my free time for fun.



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07 Dec 2008, 5:32 am

I posted about the exact same thing a couple of days ago, oh well.


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07 Dec 2008, 11:17 am

And no Viagra.



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07 Dec 2008, 3:23 pm

release_the_bats wrote:
I'm not in class. I'm just a regular aspie with an obsession. :lol:

I like to read about zoology, including taxonomy, in my free time for fun.


I hear you. I spent all of one summer memorizing the latin names of whales and dolphins.



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08 Dec 2008, 6:13 pm

LKL wrote:
release_the_bats wrote:
I'm not in class. I'm just a regular aspie with an obsession. :lol:

I like to read about zoology, including taxonomy, in my free time for fun.


I hear you. I spent all of one summer memorizing the latin names of whales and dolphins.


Taxonomy is easy to become obsessed with.