Since turtles have no teeth, how can they bite off their food?
Are the arrangement, number, and form of plates the same for all turtles of this species?
The common fresh-water turtles have distinct toes, which are webbed and provided with long nails.
The different species of the order Chelonia, to which turtles and tortoises belong, are distinguished mainly by the limbs.
Turtles and turtle eggs can be had in season and a great variety of birds, some of them delicious in flavor and heavy in meat.
In the season of the rains game is away from the river and fish are scarce and turtles absent.
There was a stranded log or two in the river, and on these certain families of snapping-turtles used to congregate and drowse in the sun and give thanks, in their dumb way, to Providence for benevolence extended to them.
Then the children said pitying things and wept--and at dinner we finished the tragedy which the turtles had begun.
In other words, the monsters which we have described existed over and above a far more abundant population of crocodiles and turtles then the modern waters can boast.
The turtles did not culminate in the Mesozoic, but go on to be represented by more numerous and larger species in the Tertiary and Modern.
Still even now to commemorate what Kuloskap did to the turtles and how he jested, the turtles (Mikchich) lay eggs even to this day.
The great Californian cattle caused hardly less trouble than the elephants, but the Astorian turtles appeared to feel themselves at home at once.
The marine grasses, upon which the turtles feed, covered the bottom; and many curious forms were moving about it in the clear water.
Like young turtles just from the shell, the baby alligators make for the water, but unlike the young of the sea-turtles, the saurians have the assistance of their parent, who not unfrequently takes a load of them upon her back.
The box turtles are so constructed that when they desire to retire from the world nothing whatever save the hard shell remains exposed.
I know of but one good group of reptiles, and that is a group of turtles which was prepared by Mr. F.
There are possibilities with such subjects as the crocodiles, iguanas, lizards of various kinds, serpents, andturtles that few dream of.
Lizards of many species, large and small, and also tortoises and turtles of every American species, are thus represented with great success.
Wherever you go collecting in the tropics or sub-tropics, turtles are your lawful prey.
The tortoises and turtles contain a number of species which are edible, and many of the forms invite the breeder's care.
The latter might serve as well for the protection of the turtles which resort to that shore to lay their eggs.
Later on other turtles were added to the collection, and a yellow lizard with a blue tail gave the finishing touch to this conglomerate of animal life.
Turtles like a diet of flies, and small insects, and fruit.
Turtles weighing a thousand pounds, petrified, lie around, and all over is strewn the remains of extinct animals in this vast charnel-house.
At one place there is a valley which has the appearance of a floor of an ancient lake, where turtles lie imbedded by hundreds, and some weighing a ton.
Thus they talked while the waggon jogged slowly homeward, while the frogs and turtles and the distant ripple of the sea made a drowsy mingling concert in the summer-evening air.
Though the little turtles (tortuguillos) may have burst the shells of their eggs during the day, they are never seen to come out of the ground but at night.
In this situation the turtles cannot rise; and as the jaguar turns many more than he can eat in one night, the Indians often avail themselves of his cunning and avidity.
It even digs up the eggs; and together with the crocodile, the heron, and the galinazo vulture, is the most cruel enemy of the little turtles recently hatched.
Orinoco, and kill the turtles with poisoned arrows, whilst, with upraised heads and paws extended, the animals are warming themselves in the sun.
The shores where almost all the turtles of the Orinoco appear to assemble annually, are situated between the junction of the Orinoco with the Apure, and the great cataracts; that is to say, between Cabruta and the Mission of Atures.
The young turtles had come out of their shells before the Indians had formed their camp; and consequently the crocodiles and the garzes, a species of large white herons, availed themselves of the delay.
On the other hand, the Ottomac Indians declare that, at the period of inundation, they have met with female turtles followed by a great number of young ones.
Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
With that the sergeants hent the young man stout, And bound him likewise in a worthless chain; Then back to back fast to a stake both ties, Two harmless turtles dight for sacrifice.
The Fossil Record Garfish and turtles in the Rio Grande give us a hint about life here 50 million years ago.
Crocodiles and turtles hung on from the Age of Reptiles, but nature’s evolutionary torch passed to the warm-blooded mammals who increased rapidly in numbers, size, and diversity.
On leaving we brought away with us seven tons of turtles from the abundant supplies its shores afforded.
In the course of four hours thirty green turtles were brought on board, one of which, and not the largest, weighed 385 pounds.
The reefs and beaches abounded with turtles of two kinds, the Mydas and a species of the Imbricated.
I have been informed that the turtles at Ascension Island, when fresh caught, have a large ball of a curious kind of weed in their stomach, and that as soon as it is consumed, they become watery and lose their flavour.
Never before, on any occasion, had we seen dead turtles in any similar position; how they could have got there was a mystery, unless we suppose them to have been thrown up by some earthquake wave.
The first officer went ashore with a boat to take our letters, and to bring back some turtles for use during the voyage.
Three turtles were brought on board "all alive," and placed on their backs on the deck until they were required by the cook.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turtles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
