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Eastern box turtle lives long life in the slow lane

Posted on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 and is filed under Tech & Science, Tech And Gadgets. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

One of the most successful animals is among the slowest. Spawned during the Triassic period some 200 million years ago, Eastern box turtles (Tarrapene carolina) are probably not that different today than they were eons ago. Lumbering along like reptilian tanks, box turtles are easy to admire. Their shell is distinctive: a domelike carapace…

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