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These rare turtles are making a comeback after a virus almost wiped them out. Nearly 100 captive-bred Bellinger River snapping turtles have been released into the wild, the biggest number yet for the breeding program after a virus nearly wiped them out in 2015.
Echidnas caught eating the eggs of Queensland's bum-breathing turtles, potentially endangering the reptile's future. Echidnas are known for laying eggs and eating ants, but it turns out a few have developed a hunger for the eggs of endangered turtles.
There are six different species of freshwater turtle found in the Fitzroy, Burnett and Mary catchments.
But it's the two threatened species that breathe oxygen underwater through their bums, whose eggs have been most predated by echidnas. Ms Robinson said the the difference in depredation might be because the Fitzroy River turtles' burrows are shallower.
The distance from the burrow opening to the top egg is just 14.2 centimetres (5.5 inches) which is about the same length as an echidna beak.
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Tiny endangered turtle twins hatch from same egg in 1-in-3000 event amid efforts to save the species. When scientists discovered seven baby Bell's turtles in a batch of six incubated eggs in the NSW Northern Tablelands recently, they were initially stumped.
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Woman fishes alligator snapping turtle out of English lake using a shopping basket. The creature, native to the US south, was spotted bathing in a lake in Cumbria by a local dog walker.