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Poll Question: did the turle walk on land and become Tortoise or vicaversa
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    Posted: June 30 2012 at 03:34
did the tortoise walktowards the sea and become turtles, or did the turtles walk swam from water up on lands and become tortoise,
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2012 at 04:09
Thinking logically, an aquatic environment is the best place for a reptile-like creature to have evolved into a turtle/tortoise as the ribs and backbone could have formed bony extensions that support the shell more easily in a "weightless" environment (turtle shell is skin not bone, it is formed from enlarged scales that have hardened). This is supported by the fossil record that shows the oldest known proto-turtle as being aquatic.
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Points: 34069 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2012 at 04:28
have you seen Inside Natures Giants,

they carve into a large softshelled turtle among animals and that evolutionaru stage was brilliantly explained by Richard Dawkins (who is much more pleassant to listen to when he actualy is talking about something he burns for rather hearing him talking about stuff that anoyes him (like religiona and stuff), but when he talks about animals like turtles, elephants,or camels, he is a totaly different person)

i just saw them desect a baboon
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Points: 4671 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2012 at 16:08
No idea; but Tortoise is a great band.
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Points: 67421 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2012 at 16:10
So is Deep Turtle.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2012 at 16:15
Terrapin is a great Syd Barrett song.
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Points: 166183 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2012 at 16:38
Turtles will reign supreme upon the Earth one day soon.
Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2012 at 16:42
..when they can catch it.
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