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Post Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 4:46 pm   

How odd!!! Looks like it's been run over.

Ain't nature grand? I can't wait for the next sighting of the ivory billed wood pecker!
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Post Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 9:33 pm   

Some more interesting news about these turtles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/world ... rtles.html

nytimes wrote:Without a shell to protect it, he said, the turtle spends more than 95 percent of its life almost motionless under the sand, surfacing just twice a day to take a single huge breath.


Emmett wrote:I have seen cobras striking, and this is easily the same speed. And it has the hardest bite of any animal known to man.
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Post Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 4:48 pm   

I have to say it. It's cute!
2 RES-Sparky M 6.0 and Spike F 9.0
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Post Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 9:28 pm   

:shock:
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