ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON PUTS GREEN ALGAE HAIRED TURTLE on ENDANGERED LIST

NEW YORK TIMES GREEN HAIRED TURTLE BREATHS THROUGH GENITALS

EXCERPT The one with the green “mohawk” hair (actually algae), formally known as the Mary River turtle, is an Australian species that split from other living species about 40 million years ago. It has special organs in its cloaca that allow it to draw oxygen from the water. It can stay underwater for up to three days.

No. 1 on the list is the Madagascar big-headed turtle, according to the Edge site, “sits alone at the end of a branch of the tree of life which stretches back more than 80 million years to the age of the dinosaurs.”