A large snapping turtle was caught sunning on a hot rock in the middle of a farm pond enjoying the hot sun, which is a world away from the dark depths where it normally lives. The "terror of the pond deeps" is a bottom walker, which barely swims as it trudges along the bottom looking for anything organic to eat.
Snappers have such a small shell they cannot withdraw into it for protection but they make up for it with a ferocious disposition and vicious jaws and claws. Snappers are the oldest living reptiles - much older than dinosaurs - and despite an unlikely body have figured out how to persist despite many changes in the Earth's environments.
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A large snapping turtle was caught sunning on a hot rock in the middle of a farm pond enjoying the hot sun, which is a world away from the dark depths where it normally lives. The “terror of the pond deeps” is a bottom walker, which barely swims as it trudges along the bottom looking for anything organic to eat.
Snappers have such a small shell they cannot withdraw into it for protection but they make up for it with a ferocious disposition and vicious jaws and claws. Snappers are the oldest living reptiles — much older than dinosaurs — and despite an unlikely body have figured out how to persist despite many changes in the Earth’s environments.
