How the turtle got its unique hard shell (proven Theory/s)

www.bbc.co.uk ^ | 31 May 2013 | Melissa Hogenboom

[kimtom]

La Intelligente Strikes again!!!!! (sarc)

(article photo)

[Celtic Conservative]

Turtle wax?

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[pax_et_bonum]

How it evolved into the liberal skull is still a mystery.

[Persevero]

God designed it so. His creativity is infinite. Marvelous.

[Gamecock]

More benefits to society from the exciting world of marine biology!

[Doc Savage]

Keeping in mind the fact the ‘Evolution’ is based on RANDOM mutations it just as easily could have become a Zebra.

[kimtom]

Depending were it falls in the "evol" tree....could be right!!!!!

but generally mutations loose data not gain, opposite of thermodynamics.

[djf]

Lol!!

Coffee comin outa my nose now!!

[Raycpa]

YBYSAIA

[SWAMPSNIPER]

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[Slyfox]

God designed it so. His creativity is infinite. Marvelous.

When PBS began showing their nature programs, the state of Evolution only went back, what - just under a million years? Now, they are claiming multi-millions and I even heard a billion years. A billion years?

Now, when I am watching an absolutely beautiful coral reef with all the individual fish with their differently-shaped mouths designed BY GOD to clean all the different crevices and surfaces, my kids will hear me yell out CREATED when they say the word EVOLUTION.

When they push God out of the picture, they fall for anything.

[kimtom]

[pax_et_bonum]

Coffee comin outa my nose now!!
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Always happy to oblige!

;-)

[dsrtsage]

Not only did it have to evolve the first time. But then it had to split into thousands of unique sub-species, and populate every nook and cranny of the planet in just a few million years.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

This theory is incorrect. How they formed is the liberal turtles has the turtle IRS harass the conservative turtles, tax the hell out of them and take their homes, so the conservative turtles had the idea of welding their homes to their bodies.

[American in Israel]

Yes, Random Mutations that you see on every plant and bug and animal today. Some where, around here, perhaps with the missing transition fossils...

[Persevero]

“my kids will hear me yell out CREATED when they say the word EVOLUTION.”

We all blow raspberries in similar circumstances.

It is such a giant and utter lie.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Verginius Rufus]

I would guess that "Eunotosaurus" is a combination of eu "good" with notos (first "o" a long "o" or omega), meaning "back," and sauros "lizard."

Notos with the first "o" short (omicron) would mean the south wind (or southwest wind) or the south quarter (or southwest quarter), which makes less sense. The namer of Eunotosaurus thought it had a good back.

[bert]

At nearby Gray Tennessee a treasure trove of 4.6 to 7 million years old fossils are being carefully excavated. Among the fossils are the shells of painted turtles much like the red eared sliders in your photo.

I paddle my kayak on nearby Fort Patrick Henry Lake where they are commonly hauled out just like the picture you took. As Stephen Gould said, evolution is punctuated by change with long periods of stability

Also present are fossil snapping turtles and land dwelling box turtles also much like those of today.