Turtles and Tortoises Sleep Atni

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Until a few years ago, we thought turtles went back about 220 million years. The person who discovered the proto turtle fossil was then eight year old cobus niman. And also, just to hammer this home, so turtles include tortoises and sea turtles and terrapins,. which are smallish turtles that live in fresh or brackish water. In the uk, turtles mean water pows, tortoises mean land friends. So it's kind o reginal.

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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Transcripts by Emily White of The Wordary

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