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Sea Turtle Skeleton + Flashlight + Zoology lab + Camera = Good times!
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I saw some of these at the Boston Aquarium and they are massive! I love turtle skeletons, how there's so little bones within the shell. It's like an exoskeleton made out of bone instead of......chitin? I can never remember what that stuff is called.
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I think chitin is the right word.
Turtle skeletons astound me too. They're so alien, so perfectly adapted for what the animal needs. All that armor.
Hey, I meant to ask you earlier... What field of biology are you planning on specializing in when you go to college?
I was on the pre-vet route, but was derailed by an overpowering urge to become an art major.
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If you had asked me that a few years ago, I could have told you Paleontology. Definately.
Now....I dunno. It seems to change every week, I like Biochemistry though. Maybe something in forensic anthropology or pharmacological sciences. (I think I just invented that last one...)
I could never be a vet. I'd be sobbing louder than the owners whenever an animal died.
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Hey, you've still got plenty of time to figure out what you want to do.
Biochem sounds fun! At one time I thought about getting into that field, back when I was all ambitious and stuff. 
Yeah, being a vet would certainly take its toll.
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I've never seen a live one in person. 
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they remind me of airplanes...they glide right under the surface of the water. they are really cute, but i'm afraid of messing with them...they have tremendously sparp beaks
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Wow! That's cool. Do you see them often in Florida?
Yes, I wouldn't mess with them either. Turtles have enormously strong jaws, and aren't afraid to use them.
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i've yet to see them on the Atlantic side of the Keys, but i have seen them in the Gulf, and Florida Bay. i know of a beach nearby my home where they nest, you see the nests marked off by chicken wire so people don't step on them. but i haven't seen the actual turtles come on shore, or the little ones hatch...i've always managed to miss them. oh well:shurgs:
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Maybe someday you'll see them. I bet it's truly a sight to behold, and something you'd remember forever.
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Okay, Checkov, report to the bridge immediately. Kirk has something he wants to talk to you about. 
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Number one, I order you to take a number two. Launch the Fruiton Torpedoes and make us go that way>>>>
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I got nothin.
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Oh, Sure, up for over an hour and you still haven't called me....well, I NEVER!!
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the moNitor may be dark for mE, bUt i kn0w dJyturZ WiLL 
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Oh, I hope she does like it!
These photos are a bit on the dark side and probably do get lost on many monitors. Sorry.
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