Buy me a turtle, Mom, please buy me a turtle!

The turtle died.

I heard Tom snapping his fingers.

Baby sea turtle in Zanzibar.

We ate some turtle soup.

Take a walk with a turtle.

How long does a turtle live?

Why did you buy a turtle?

We found a turtle in the garden.

A variety of the Chinese softshell turtle popular with China's gourmets is called the Yellow River Turtle (黄河鳖).

This is Tom's pet turtle. She's called Mary.

The best example of quality of life is the turtle because the turtle is an example of living and working together.

A cute little turtle was found on the beach.

The world rests on the back of a great turtle.

From a distance, the small island looked like a turtle.

Endangered animals such as the green turtle ( Chelonia mydas ) and the Hawksbill turtle ( Eretmochelys imbracata ) nest on the beach at the foot of the cliffs.

Cutting to the present is a rude awakening, like snapping out of a dream.

So I watched all the photographers snapping away, but I came away with nothing.

Or the bog turtle, needing wet meadows and insects and sunny places.

Many of the turtle eggs left on beaches make for easy prey.

Curious travelers are, therefore, restricted to snapping pictures of the uglier side of Kazakhstan's largest city.

In 2007, construction started in Wangcun on a large farm for raising this turtle variety.

difficult or not completely healthy children are a heavy burden, one that might lead to someone snapping and killing them.

Turtle hatching season generally runs from March to December, with May and June being the months of highest concentration.

The blogs OutSyed The Box, Din Turtle and Minaq Jingo Fotopages were blocked for being critical of the government.

Noting with satisfaction also the recent adoption of regional sea turtle conservation instruments in the West African and Indian Ocean South East Asia regions,

The Environmental Management Authority's attempt to spin the destruction of turtle eggs and hatchlings does not reflect positively on the Authority's commitment to conservation.

Ever since China rejoined the global economy three decades ago, its trading partners have been snapping up its manufacturing exports, because low Chinese wages made them super competitive.

The photo shows a woman on a scooter snapping a photo of Beckham she was not wearing a helmet and worse, there was a child sleeping between her legs.

Aleksandar Lambros, a Serbian born photographer currently living and working in Monaco, has been snapping photos of tell tale details of Belgrade's architectural history and collecting them on his blog.

The thumbnail image used in this post, Juvenile Leatherback Sea Turtle , is by algaedoc, used under an Attribution NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY NC 2.0) Creative Commons license.

One day, in the subway, I was snapping pictures of the tracks hoping to catch a rat or two, and a man came up to me and said, You can't take photographs here.

He accused big construction firms of keeping property prices high by snapping up land but not using it, and urged Mrs May to abandon quotas on affordable homes to fix Britain's housing disgrace.

The news of leatherback turtle hatchlings being crushed by bulldozers on a beach in Trinidad this past weekend has garnered international media attention as well as concern in the blogosphere.

In previous years under past regimes repair work, such as was undertaken over the weekend, has been done, but not during the hatching and nesting phases of the leatherback turtle season.

Now, the beast is reawakening, the threads are snapping one after another, and the world faces the task, neglected for ten critical years, not so much of restoring as of reinventing the control of nuclear arms.

Casa Barry, one of the big dive oriented lodges in Tofo, discusses conservation and brings attention the issue of illegal fishing on its blog, like this post on the rescue and successful release of a loggerhead sea turtle.

The incident happened when the Ministry of Works was attempting to re route the Grande Riviere river in order to address the issue of beach erosion in the area, which is one of the preferred nesting sites for the endangered leatherback turtle.

What Darwin said was something like this if you have creatures that vary, and that can't be doubted I've been to the Galapagos, and I've measured the size of the beaks and the size of the turtle shells and so on, and so on.

They were mere outlines for more serious measures, that, even when the Cold War ended ten years ago, were never put in place. Now, the beast is reawakening, the threads are snapping one after another, and the world faces the task, neglected for ten critical years, not so much of restoring as of reinventing the control of nuclear arms.

For a rare species of sea turtle this is bad news, as the eggs laid in the sand on those very beaches in the annual spawning season are due to hatch at precisely this time of the year. The total amount of oil released into the sea is now well over 100,000 tons.