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Turtle in sentence

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Take a walk with a turtle.
And every now and then, find a friend, find a turtle, and take a long, slow walk.
This is a dead turtle.
The rest of the time, you're just defending, and you get into this, turtle posture, you know?
We've also taken pictures of other animals including forest buffalos in Gabon, elephants, and even turtle nests.
In a study where a fake snake and a fake turtle were put on the side of the road, drivers hit the snake much more often than the turtle, and about three percent of drivers who hit the fake animals seemed to do it on purpose.
I went in with my backpack that looked like a turtle shell because it was bigger than me, and I walked up to a little girl and smiled at her, and she looked up at me like I was a monster, like I was the scariest thing she had ever seen in her life.
The best example of quality of life is the turtle because the turtle is an example of living and working together.
And when you realize that the casque of the turtle looks like an urban tessitura, and can we imagine, if we cut the casque of the turtle, how sad she's going to be?
Second, throughout the centuries and up till today, every living adult sea turtle has overcome the odds, existing as a consequence of chance, skill, and capability.
The gauntlet each sea turtle faces in the course of its lifetime goes thus: First, deposited as a clutch of leathery, ping-pong ball-sized eggs into a nesting pit dug by its mother high on the beach, of the 50 to 200 eggs laid, roughly 20 percent will never hatch.
It is this added human pressure which has pushed each of the eight sea turtle species into either a threatened or endangered state.
So a breeding adult sea turtle is the very embodiment of a long shot.
Swimming at night, I encountered the first biofluorescent sea turtle.
So now it's going from fish and sharks into reptiles, which, again, this is only one month old, but it shows us that we know almost nothing about this hawksbill turtle's vision.
In "Summer," the turtle dove sings her name "tortorella" in Italian, before a hail storm flattens the fields.
Before long, you find yourself staring at a turtle, and asking yourself, "Is this a puzzle?"
And also, staring at a turtle and saying, "I never appreciated what multitudes this contains in its shell alone."
And if you don't want to fold 400 scales, you can back off and just do a few things, and add plates to the back of a turtle, or toes.
Odontochelys is an early ancestor of the turtle.
Its half-shelled body illustrates an important point about the modern turtle: it actually has two shells that develop totally separately while the turtle is still an embryo.
Like other embryos, turtle embryos are made of undifferentiated cells that become specific cell types, and then organs and tissues, through gene activity and communication between cells.
At first, turtle embryos look very similar to those of other reptiles, birds, and mammals, except for a bulge of cells called the carapacial ridge.
As the turtle grows, the sutures between the bones of the carapace and plastron spread.
The oldest known turtle ancestor, a creature called Eunotosaurus africanus, lived 260 million years ago and looked almost nothing like a modern turtle, but it had a set of broad, flat ribs that anchored the muscles of its powerful forearms.
Odontochelys semitestacea illustrates another, later step in turtle evolution, with thick ribs like Eunotosaurus plus a belly plate for protection.
Modern turtle shells are almost as diverse as the turtles themselves.
When the turtle Ak Na'ak rose in the sky to mark the summer solstice, Chak Ek’ claimed his fourth victim.
A turtle emerged from the wound and swam away, alternating easily between sea and land as she went.
Or the bog turtle, needing wet meadows and insects and sunny places.
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