Synonyms for turtles
tur·tles

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1. List of paraphrases for "turtles":

   turtle, tortoises, tortoise, hatchlings, leatherbacks, tortue

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1. Eric Sutton:

   The illegal trade of turtles is having a global impact on many turtle species and our ecosystems.

2. Jasmina Wiemann:

   Lizards and turtles sit in the sun and bask, and we may have to consider similar' behavioral' thermoregulation in ornithischians with exceptionally low metabolic rates. Cold-blooded dinosaurs also might have had to migrate to warmer climates during the cold season, and climate may have been a selective factor for where some of these dinosaurs could live.

3. David Hone:

   They seem to be heron-like in their habits so they would be wading in shallow water and taking fish and other swimming things like small turtles and young crocodiles and doing the same on land going after baby dinosaurs and mammals, they would have been able to strike down hard and fast, just as herons do, so it would be a quick snap down on something relatively small.

4. Mark Dodd:

   It showed that the captured rate for turtles was eight times higher than it is in the winter on average, that was a take level that was considered to be unacceptably high. The project was shut down.

5. Pamela Plotkin:

   So I kind of got down on my hands and knees and I real gently brushed a little bit of sand back and then -- lo and behold, there's an egg, there's one hatching, we watched several of the turtles hatch in front of our eyes.