Alligator snapping turtle hatchling

A tiny turtle emerges from a broken egg in a container with a half dozen other eggs each with the number 19 written on them

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USFWS

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Image

A young alligator snapping turtle at Tishomingo National Fish Hatchery in Oklahoma.

Facility

Tishomingo National Fish Hatchery

Species

Macrochelys temminckii

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