The painted turtle is the only species of Chrysemys, a genus of
pond turtles. It lives in slow-moving freshwaters, from southern Canada to the Louisiana Gulf Coast and northern Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Four U.S. states name the painted turtle as their
official reptile. Fossils show that the painted turtle existed 15 million years ago, but four regionally based
subspecies (the eastern, midland, southern, and western) evolved during the
last ice age. The turtle's skin is olive to black with distinctive red, orange, or yellow stripes. Reliant on warmth from its surroundings, the painted turtle can frequently be seen basking on logs. Crayfish and dragonflies are among the turtle's preferred prey. Many predators eat the turtle eggs or hatchlings, but the adult's shell protects it from most enemies except for raccoons, alligators and humans. Turtles in the wild can live for more than 55 years. (more...)
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Sherman's March to the Sea, was the U.S. sprint champion in the 1870s, and trained the "world's fastest human" in the 1880s?
... that the 19th-century Shrigley Hall in
Cheshire, England, originally a country house, was later a
Salesian school with a chapel added in 1936, and now is a hotel and country club?
... that
Amanda Peet jokingly described her character in the upcoming television comedy series Bent as "a repressed woman who needs to get laid"?
Wineglass Bay, in the Freycinet Peninsula of eastern
Tasmania, with Mount Freycinet (right) and Mount Graham (left) visible behind.
Nicolas Baudin named the peninsula after French explorer
Louis de Freycinet, one of the first to produce a comprehensive map of the coastline of Australia.
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The painted turtle is the only species of Chrysemys, a genus of
pond turtles. It lives in slow-moving freshwaters, from southern Canada to the Louisiana Gulf Coast and northern Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Four U.S. states name the painted turtle as their
official reptile. Fossils show that the painted turtle existed 15 million years ago, but four regionally based
subspecies (the eastern, midland, southern, and western) evolved during the
last ice age. The turtle's skin is olive to black with distinctive red, orange, or yellow stripes. Reliant on warmth from its surroundings, the painted turtle can frequently be seen basking on logs. Crayfish and dragonflies are among the turtle's preferred prey. Many predators eat the turtle eggs or hatchlings, but the adult's shell protects it from most enemies except for raccoons, alligators and humans. Turtles in the wild can live for more than 55 years. (more...)
... that "Dad" Moulton, a participant in
Sherman's March to the Sea, was the U.S. sprint champion in the 1870s, and trained the "world's fastest human" in the 1880s?
... that the 19th-century Shrigley Hall in
Cheshire, England, originally a country house, was later a
Salesian school with a chapel added in 1936, and now is a hotel and country club?
... that
Amanda Peet jokingly described her character in the upcoming television comedy series Bent as "a repressed woman who needs to get laid"?
Wineglass Bay, in the Freycinet Peninsula of eastern
Tasmania, with Mount Freycinet (right) and Mount Graham (left) visible behind.
Nicolas Baudin named the peninsula after French explorer
Louis de Freycinet, one of the first to produce a comprehensive map of the coastline of Australia.
This Wikipedia is written in
English. Started in 2001 (2001), it currently contains
3,688,343 articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.