Well, it is big enough to bite your hand clean off and they can reproduce veryquickly. Also they average about 2 times bigger than your regular laptop with it open.
There are two alligator snapping turtles.
There are 24 species of crocodile.
There are two extant species of the family Chelydridae: Chelydra serpentina, the Common Snapping Turtle, and its larger relative Macrochelys temminckii, the Alligator Snapping Turtle (although the monotypic Asian genus Platysternon has at times been included in this group). Both are endemic to the Western Hemisphere.
No, there are many different types of turtles and tortoises all around the world. There are painted turtles, box turtles, alligator tortoises, Galapagos's tortoeses(largest turtles ever) and many many more.
When young alligator snapping turtles hatch, they are two to three inches long.
ONE snapping turtle can't reproduce. It takes two, male and female. But yeah, snapping turtles as a specie do reproduce. All living things eventually die, so a specie that doesn't reproduce to replace old individuals with young individuals will disappear rather soon.
Well, when two turtles of the opposite sex really love each other...
Here's a description of a snapping turtle: large head, long thick neck and back of shell has sawtooth edge. The height of the head end is a lot bigger than the tail end. There is a good picture on the "Nova Scotia Turtles" page of the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History website. Scroll to the bottom of the Museum website and click Nova Scotia Nature; scroll to the bottom and click on Nova Scotia Turtles, Click on "fresh water turtles" and scroll down to Snapping turtle.
Alligator mississippiensis
Because the Chinese eat them. Me and my friend like turtles and I have two baby Alligator Snapping Turtles. I want to try and help save them, but I am not capable of telling people what to do. Hopefully someone will put a stop to people eating them. I hope this was helpful.
The word "the" has one syllable, and the word "turtle" has two syllables, so together "the turtle" has three syllables.
There are more than 250 different turtle species out of which forty species of turtles are endangered. Here are the four of the most popular species : 1. Box Turtles (Genus Terrapene ornata ornata), 2. Sliders (Genus Trachemys), 3. Mud Turtles (Genus Kinosternon and Sternotherus) and 4.Painted Turtles (Genus Chrysemys). First two are the terrestrial turtles and the last two are Aquatic Turtles.