Image Source Turtles are land-dwelling reptiles of the order Testudines. Sea turtles are found all over the world with the most famous turtle of all, the Lonesome George giant tortoise living in the Galapagos Islands near Ecuador.
Turtles, like their aquatic cousins, the tortoises, have a hard shell that protects their bodies, the upper shell called the carapace (the dorsal part of the exoskeleton or shell) and the lower part called the carapace (the almost flat part of the shell). shell structure).
The carapace can help determine the age of the turtle by the number of concentric rings, just like the cross section of a tree, as many turtles can retract their heads, all four limbs and tails into the shell for protection.
Turtles have a beak but no teeth and no external ears, just two small nostrils on either side of the head.
Male turtles tend to have long, prominent necks compared to their female relatives, and turtles tend to be diurnal (active during the day) animals that tend to be crepuscular (animals active primarily during twilight), depending on ambient temperatures.
Their main diet consists of alfalfa, alfalfa, dandelions and leafy greens. Its young erupt from their shells with a forward beak.
The baby turtle is able to eat solid food in about 3 to 7 days. A turtle’s life span Tortoises generally have life spans similar to those of humans, however, some turtles have been known to live over 150 years. Since the age of the dinosaurs, about 300 million years ago.
Turtles and tortoises are the only surviving branch of the older clade Anapsida, which includes groups such as procolophonoids, millerettids, and pareiasaurs.
Most of the anapsid species became extinct in the late Permian period, with the exception of the procollophonoids and their precursors to the testodenes (turtles and turtles).