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Indeed turtle and tortoise science is rife with enough would-be poets that the specialist journal Chelonian Conservation and Biology for years saw fit to include a regular section of verse.
The Beating Heart Beneath the Shell Jennie Erin Smith 2011
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Turtle expert Peter Pritchard, president of the Chelonian Research Institute, confirmed the find based on a photo Hendrie showed him.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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My favourite is the mechanical tortoise labelled "Magical Chelonian."
Boing Boing 2006
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Chelonian, as Crassus for his deceased eel, or the first salmon of the season bring a fabulous price in the market, yet the time has long passed when the gratification of appetite is alone thought of in connection with Nature.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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He was in 1882 extending his important observations upon the respiratory apparatus from birds to reptiles, with results which show him to have been keenly appreciative of the existence of fundamental points of similarity between the Avian and Chelonian types -- a field which has been more recently independently opened up by Milani.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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Lacertilian, and Chelonian _Reptilia_ have undergone, from the older
Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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The remains of reptiles have been found occasionally, though rarely, in this outlier of the Weald, -- the vertebra of a Plesiosaurus, the femur of some Chelonian reptile, and a large fluted tooth, supposed
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Taipei Zoo said it would sign an agreement with the US-based turtle conservancy Behler Chelonian Center conservation of endangered turtle and tortoise species, especially Burmese conservation and creates an incentive to protect natural habitats ivory from Chinese workers is a main contributor to rising elephant poaching in
WN.com - Articles related to Organize your child's toys 2009
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Lunenburg, Massachusetts: Chelonian Research Foundation.
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The Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo owns many radiated tortoises kept at the Behler Chelonian Conservation Center and other U.S. zoos and about a dozen held at the WCS Bronx Zoo.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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