Turtle Versus Tortoise

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Turtles are partially aquatic, like they'll go dip into a pond for a bit and come back up. They just aren't very good swimmers, ik, though they'll still hang out in water. One theory is that the link to turtles was a lizard that o i think it's called the untisarus. It's a stout lizard, short legs, hanted like a tortoise body, but without the shell.

We're bringing back one shell of an episode with today's encore. What's a tortoise? What's a turtle? Why do they live so dang long? What's up with their junk? Wildlife biologist and testudinologist Amanda Hipps studies gopher tortoises and dishes about turtle nomenclature, cliques, dicks, behavior, burrows, evolution, habitats and more. If you don't dig tortoises yet, you're about to fall deep into a turtle tunnel in love with them.

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Sound editing by Steven Ray Morris & Jarrett Sleeper

Transcripts by Emily White of The Wordary

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