Mister Quick Jaws
Why did the snapping turtle cross the road? Scientists can't rightly say.
By Ken Textor
Two hundred million years of evolutionary success is difficult to call into question. But when our local snapping turtle made his fourth annual appearance in our gravel driveway, far from what I thought was any logical water source, we began to wonder if perhaps one creature had missed the Darwinian boat.Actually, turtles are one of Mother Nature's great success stories, turning up in the fossil record late in the Triassic Period and surviving giant dinosaurs, cosmic collisions, floods, and ice ages by remaining pretty much unchanged down through the ages.
