Episode 1. What is a Turtle?

Butt-breathing, upside-down swimming turtles, guard tortoises, the Neverending Story, meat-eating tortoises (we were way ahead of the latest video...) and Ryan discovers that Rebecca doesn’t like a certain death-feigning animal! Join Rebecca and Ryan on their inaugural full episode of Let’s Talk Turtles!


News article:
https://globegazette.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/watch-now-north-iowa-kids-take-charge-at-ventura-turtle-crossing/article_4d03827c-04a3-5998-937b-cd1aacb255fc.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_
References:
https://news.yale.edu/2014/05/05/study-finds-turtles-are-closer-kin-birds-crocodiles-lizards-snakes
https://www.fws.gov/international/pdf/archive/workshop-terrestrial-turtles-presentation-abstracts.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/cryptodira
https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs00114-016-1375-y
Pérez-García, Adán (4 June 2016). "A new turtle confirms the presence of Bothremydidae (Pleurodira) in the Cenozoic of Europe and expands the biostratigraphic range of Foxemydina". The Science of Nature. 103 (7–8): 50.
Joyce, Walter G.; Anquetin, Jérémy; Cadena, Edwin-Alberto; Claude, Julien; Danilov, Igor G.; Evers, Serjoscha W.; Ferreira, Gabriel S.; Gentry, Andrew D.; Georgalis, Georgios L.; Lyson, Tyler R.; Pérez-García, Adán (2021-02-09). "A nomenclature for fossil and living turtles using phylogenetically defined clade names". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 140 (1): 5. doi:10.1186/s13358-020-00211-x. ISSN 1664-2384.