Green-Haired Turtle That Breathes Through Its Genitals Added To Endangered Listing

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From The Guardian:

With its punky light-green mohican the blast Mary river turtle joins a novel ZSL listing of the world’s nearly vulnerable reptiles

It sports a light-green mohican, fleshy finger-like growths nether its mentum as well as tin breathe through its genitals.

The Mary river turtle is ane of the nearly blast creatures on the planet, as well as it is too ane of the nearly endangered.

The 40cm long turtle, which is alone establish on the Mary river inward Queensland, features inward a novel listing of the nearly vulnerable reptile species compiled yesteryear the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).
Despite the turtle’s punk appearance – derived from vertical strands of algae that too grow on its trunk – its docile nature made it historically pop every bit a pet.

Gill-like organs inside its cloaca – an orifice used yesteryear reptiles for excretion as well as mating – enable it to rest underwater for upwards to iii days, precisely it was unable to enshroud from the pet collectors who raided its nests during the 1960s as well as 1970s....MORE