Turtle with boy's initials shows up in same yard, 47 years later

Posted by David Brooks | Thursday, May 10, 2012

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Here's another way to keep track of turtles: glue a transmitter to their shell, so you can find them with a radio tracker. That's my daughter working with a wood turtle, from a summer job in New Boston two summers ago.

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Great story out of Pennsylvania about a guy walking in his woods who found an eastern box turtle, turned it over, and recognized it: His son has carved his initials into the carpace 47 years earlier!

Turtles are so cool. This species can easily live to be 100.

Here's the story, from the Pittsburgh CBS affiliate.