Strange Baby Sea Turtle Found off The Gulf Coast

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My buddy who lives down there said they've been finding a lot of these


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That's cool and everything, but that just isn't a sea turtle. Sea turtles have flippers, not claws.

2 headed, mutated animals aren't that crazy rare. I saw an episode of Ripley's believe it or not where this guy owned all kinds of different mutated, 2-headed species...snakes, turtles, etc.

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If that isn't a turtle, then what is it? A Tortoise? I haven't seen a tortoise with claws as such, so is this some new kind of species, or just 1 freak genetic mutation?

could be a terrapin thay live in water en.wikipedia.org... and the orange bit on it head/heads makes it look like one i had

Originally posted by Aceofclubs
could be a terrapin thay live in water en.wikipedia.org... and the orange bit on it head/heads makes it look like one i had

I think we have a winner!

Good find Ace S for you

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He did not say it wasn't a turtle. He said it wasn't a SEA turtle.


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That is a red-eared slider, most common turtle in Louisiana and probably Florida, Alabama, and Miss. I have been playing with those things since I could walk. Harmless.
red eared slider


ETA: Are you implying that this abnormality is attributed to the BP spill?

These turtles are Fresh-water. This DID NOT come from the Gulf.

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I do not think so. The facial pattens are totally different.


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I had few red-eared florida turtles when I was younger.
I loved them so much, they were amazing to watch and interact with!

Terrapin (or Diamondback terrapin)
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Red-Eared slider
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They are not the same species.

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I had pet terrapins too and that's what they are.

I think your buddy was pulling your leg. This terrapin or 'red eared slider' is native to america but lives in fresh water and are semi aquatic, so it can't have been found in the sea.

I'm not sure if the freaky terrapin twins are a result of photoshop though.

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Great job!! I have linked the Pdf identification poster.


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I had a couple of Tortoises in South Africa when very young, not sure exactly what species. Boy, could those suckers move! Hence my Avatar Name

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It seems kind of strange that you posted this particular turtle picture on the internet Better Mouse Trap, making us think that you really have a friend that has or had such a turtle when in fact that picture came from off of the internet.

www.google.com... CB8QsAQwAA

lol busted anyway no dought its real just like the frogs taht have extra body parts. all the junk going into the water freash and salt creats these kinds of things

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it looks like a species of the map turtle

It most definitely is a red-eared slider.

I have two of them in an aquarium at home.

They do live in fresh water.

The photo in the OP looks like the result of an egg that had a yolk that divided, but not completely.

I do not believe , if the photo is real, the turtle(s) would survive.

I don't know how it would defecate!


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It's definitly not a "sea turtle." That is a red-earred slider, and they have been finding two-headed slidders for a long time. Still, this one looks weird!

Originally posted by groingrinder
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I do not think so. The facial pattens are totally different.

 

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i had two of these type and as you will see the face paterns are very similar www.berkshirereptiles.co.uk... i never said thay were dimondbacks. i put the wiki link to show thay had claws. pet shops here in the uk sell them as terrapins so who am i to argue with the petshops

that photo looks real to me. reptiles get two heads alot more than other animals

edit to add red faced/ear terrapins may be known as red faced/ear slider in the US www.squidoo.com... have a look here. looks the same to me

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Dude, you laugh but that sort of kills the validity of this photo - reptiles are more prone to mutation because of their DNA - amphibs in particulr - so I don't doubt that mutated red-ears have been found...but their defacator- grin- is located under the tail...no tail, no voiding...no voiding, no organism.


Good shot.

Take that, photo-shop-philes.


CDS

ETA: here's a more likely configuration. Remember Squirt from "Finding Nemo"?




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reply to post by Cole DeSteele
Your attached photo is the most-seen of the Siamese twin types in reptiles, and that is actually a sea turtle to boot.

Guess we will have to look for someone to post that photo on a new thread,

" Mutated sea turtle found on shores of gulf, natives seeing a lot of these".