SYDNEY: Australia’s Mary River Turtle - with its green Mohican-style hair and ability to breathe through its genitals - is one of the world’s most distinctive reptiles. A Mary River Turtle looks on in Queensland, Australia, in this 2008 photo obtained from social media. “It would be a failure if we let this animal that walked alongside dinosaurs become extinct.”A Mary River Turtle looks on in Queensland, Australia, in this 2008 photo obtained from social media. Pix by Chris Van Wyk via REUTERSOnce a popular pet in Australia, the exact population of the Mary River Turtle, known to biologists as Elusor macrurus, is unknown, the Zoological Society of London said. Nearly 20 years later, John Cann, a Sydney-based turtle enthusiast, rediscovered the turtle in the Mary River in Queensland.

Source: New Strait Times April 13, 2018 08:48 UTC