19 Dec 2016

Snapping turtles

From Afternoons, 2:30 pm on 19 December 2016

Conservation Biologist, Professor Doug Armstrong of Massey University has been involved in a long running project studying snapping turtles in Canada.

Turtles are fascinating to biologists because of how long they live, and the fact that they don't appear to age. We look at why this is, and what is so special about these ancient creatures.

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