How turtles have adapted to their environments
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- Background. Not all turtles are alike. Turtles have developed special adaptations to live in specific environments. Some turtles such as sliders, mud turtles, and soft shells have adapted to living over half their life in a freshwater environment such as ponds, lakes, or streams.They have claws and webbed toes on their feet. The claws help them climb onto muddy banks and tree branches floating in the water.ackground. Not all turtles are alike. Turtles have developed special adaptations to live in specific environments. Some turtles such as sliders, mud turtles, and soft shells have adapted to living over half their life in a freshwater environment such as ponds, lakes, or streams.
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- While we do have some excellent theories about sea turtle evolution as well as some evidence, there still remains plenty of mystery about it. Hopefully we will continue to uncover new evidence that can fill in the gaps. What we also need to focus our attention on is the future for sea turtles.ot all species though were successful enough to evolve and to survive. There have been enough findings of the Archelon that date back about 65 million years ago. It is believed they were the largest sea turtles ever to walk the Earth.
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How Do Turtles Breathe Under Water? Oxygen From Water. Some species of turtles can absorb oxygen from the water, allowing them to stay underwater for long periods of time without coming up for air. The length of time they can stay underwater depends on species and temperature. Sea turtles, for example, can remain underwater for four to seven hours at rest. Hibernating turtles can stay underwater for several months. The cloaca is an opening in a turtle's rear end where the rectum and urinary systems empty.
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Horseshoe Crab Adaptations That Have Helped Them Survive Before their 400-million-year reign began, horseshoe crabs developed a number of adaptations that allow them to survive, including numerous eyes, hard shells, a specialized assortment of appendages and a primitive immune-like response to bacteria.
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- In most turtle species, gender is determined by the temperature of the egg during a critical part of incubation. In general, male turtles tend to hatch from cooler eggs, and females hatch from warmer eggs.Once hatched, baby turtles can grow quickly for the first few years, with growth slowing as they near adulthood.on breeding turtles are often the targets of predators, automobiles, and pet seekers. In addition, the longer life span allows turtles to build up environmental toxins in their tissues. These toxins can have serious affects on a turtle's health and breeding ability.
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- Ask questions, share stories, pictures, talk with lots of Turtle Lovers. Turtles are reptiles - cold-blooded creatures, i.e., their bodies depend on outside sources if heat to maintain a favorable temperature. It is critical therefore that the habitat provides them an optimal temperature. Be generous with warmth. Many turtles get sick and die because they were too cold for too long.
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Sea Turtles Some species change eating habits as they age. For example, green sea turtles are mainly carnivorous from hatching until juvenile size; they then progressively shift to an herbivorous diet. A hawksbill has a narrow head with jaws meeting at an acute angle, adapted for getting food from crevices in coral reefs. They eat sponges, tunicates, shrimps, and squids. Loggerheads' and ridleys' jaws are adapted for crushing and grinding.
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Basic Facts About Sea Turtles Sea turtles are one of the Earth's most ancient creatures. The seven species that can be found today have been around for 110 million years, since the time of the dinosaurs. The sea turtle's shell, or carapace is streamlined for swimming through the water.
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Evolution Unit Reptiles were able to develop from a species of amphibians because all organisms are able to evolve through natural selection and genetic drift. All organisms experience a change over time. A group of amphibians spent less time in the water, evolved dry skin and hard-shelled eggs and became the first reptiles.
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Meet the Seven Sea Turtle Species Meet the Seven Sea Turtle Species. There are seven species of sea turtles, which are marine reptiles that need to breathe air to survive. Six of the seven species are found in US waters, and the flatback turtle is only found in the Western Indo-Pacific.Most of their lives are spent at sea, with some species diving to depths of 3000 feet (900 meters).eet the Seven Sea Turtle Species. There are seven species of sea turtles, which are marine reptiles that need to breathe air to survive. Six of the seven species are found in US waters, and the flatback turtle is only found in the Western Indo-Pacific.
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Information About Sea Turtles: Threats from Climate Change The Problem: Because sea turtles use both marine and terrestrial habitats during their life cycles, the affects of climate change are likely to have a devastating impact on these endangered species. A rise in the sea level will impact sea turtle nesting beaches.n increase in nesting beach temperatures will also have an impact on sea turtles. Because sea turtles are reptiles, they rely on the temperature of the sand in which the eggs incubate to determine the gender of the hatchling in a nest.
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Sea Turtle Adaptation All living beings are adapted to the changing environment from time to time. Take any animal, and it is not how its ancestors looked. Over a period of time, their appearance has changed as several physical features have undergone changes. These changes were essential so that they can adapt to the newer environments.his means that their blood always contains high levels of oxygen. Also, the muscles of the leatherback store oxygen, which is used when the turtle is diving. In addition, sea turtles have a gland that helps to secrete excess salt from the body. The salt is excreted into the eyes, giving the eyes a shiny wet look.
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- Control Level Diagnosis: As adaptable as this turtle is, it does have its limits. Having developed in the southern United States, where the winters are mild, the species is simply not able to handle the harsh, cold winters of the far northern United States and Canada, which the native painted turtles can.
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- Refusal to eat is fairly common when stressed for some species (i.e.: box turtles). Land turtles move in 2 dimensions (not much vertical) so they get less usable space in a setup. The enclosure needs a # of microclimates; a warmer end, a cooler end, hide boxes, for some a humid substrate & for some a soaking pool.
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Leatherback Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) Pacific leatherback sea turtles are one of NOAA Fisheries' Species in the Spotlight. Pacific leatherback sea turtles are genetically and biologically unique. They migrate extreme distances across the Pacific from nesting to foraging areas, and are generally larger in size than Atlantic leatherbacks.
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- 1 I dont know specifically how turtle metabolic needs compare to other reptiles.  Turtle species vary widely in activity & in theory metabolism. Softshells are reputedly higher metabolism turtles; alligator snappers & mata matas are more sedentary ambush predators. Most turtles fall between the extremes.
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- Respiratory System. The respiratory system of the turtle is modified to accomodate some peculiar morphological features. Notice the trachea, which has become elongated in response to the posterior migration of the heart and viscera and, in part, to the extendable neck (Lawson 1979).he shell of the turtle poses a special problem in the ventilation of the lungs. The rigidity of the shell prevents the use of the ribs in the aspiration pump. Alternatively, turtles possess sheets of muscle within the shell that, through contraction and relaxation, force air in and out of the lungs.
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- • Australian freshwater turtle species can be adequately housed in indoor aquarium set-ups. Their aquatic nature. requires the provision of water for swimming. More importantly they need to be in water to eat, drink and defecate. • For most adult turtles a standard 1.2m long tank can be used (larger is better).
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- Medium to very large turtles with a round (hatchling) to oval (adult) skin-covered flattened carapace without scutes or keeling. In the hand they feel something like wet leather. The carapace (which extends back a good deal further than in our basking species) is flexible, & the posterior lip hangs a bit in some adults. The head has fairly high-set eyes & a long, almost snorkel-like nose giving them a needle-nose or Pinnochio face.
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Chilling Out, Warming Up: How Animals Survive Temperature Extremes Animals have some amazing adaptations that help them live in even the most hostile environments. Consider camels, for instance. They can thrive in some of the hottest and driest places on Earth. Their legs don’t get burned when they kneel on hot sand due to thick leathery patches on their knees.
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Aquatic & Semi-Aquatic Turtle Habitats, How to Create The size of the basking area will depend on the size of the turtle, the species, and how many turtles are in the terrarium. Larger turtles will need a larger basking area, and aquariums housing multiple turtles must have a basking area large enough to accommodate all the turtles at once.
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- Turtles have evolved with certain survival mechanisms, the most obvious of which is the hard shell that encompasses the turtle and protects it in times of danger. A lesser known defense is what is called sperm retention.
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What Are Some Specific Examples of the Ways That Animals Adapt to Their Environment? Adaptation can occur broadly, across an entire family of animals, or it can occur very precisely, only developing in a small population within a species. Animals adapt to their environment in a variety of ways; an animal’s color, behavior, defense or diet, for example, may serve adaptive functions. Camouflage is an important part of survival for many species, and animals use it to hide from both predators and prey.
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- Turtle— Spends most of its life in the water. Turtles tend to have webbed feet for swimming. Sea turtles (Cheloniidae family) are especially adapted for an aquatic life, with long feet that form flippers and a streamlined body shape.he majority of the most critically endangered turtles in the world are found in Madagascar and Southeast Asia. San Diego Zoo Global, the Turtle Survival Alliance, and the Wildlife Conservation Society have created a global conservation program for freshwater turtles and tortoises.
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Adaptations of Desert Amphibians & Reptiles Thomas R. Van Devender. Amphibians and reptiles have many different adaptations that allow them to live in deserts, avoiding extremes in aridity, heat, or cold. The animals may be active only in certain seasons and at favorable times of the day.Many use the environment to actively regulate their body temperatures, preventing lethal extremes.efore vertebrate animals adapted to specific terrestrial habitats, such as deserts, they first had to adapt to living on land. The primary adaptations to life on land occurred in the Paleozoic 400 to 360 mya (million years ago) with the evolution of amphibians.
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10 Famous People With Surprisingly High IQs Yet more impress with their business acumen – even Paris Hilton, though far from scholarly, has some serious entrepreneurial skills. The average IQ in the U.S. is around 98, but the stars on the following list are so intelligent they put the general public to shame, boasting genius or near-genius IQs.