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EVOLUTIONIST: Why haven't turtles evolved into something else after 75 million years?

"A turtle that toddled alongside the dinosaurs died just days before laying a clutch of eggs. Now, about 75 million years later, paleontologists are announcing their find of the fossilized mother-to-be and the eggs tucked inside her body".

Update:

Source:Jeanna Bryner

Senior Writer

LiveScience.com

Wed Aug 27, 2:33 PM ET

Update 2:

WOULD ALL OF YOU WHO THINK THAT TURTLES DON'T NEED TO CHANGE; care for a bowl of turtle soup? It was caught before the sharks ate it..........

On second thought? Are all of you saying that we have a choice about whether we evolve or not?????? Whoa!

Update 3:

suzhou sid: Thumbs Up! now i understand.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    i thought they had...aren't they call "Teen-Age Mutant Turtles"?

    LOL-sorry don, I just couldn't resist after reading some of your answers... :-)

  • misma
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Turtles have evolved quite a bit adapting to different environments over the ages. Evolution is both fact and theory for man. So the turtle didn't evolve into a Christian eating intelligent monster or something, many small mammals did evolve into Lions that did eat the original followers of Christ. How does your statement disprove evolution? Also the same people who fed the original followers of Christ to the lions, were the same people who formed what is now called the "Christian church".

    Jesus knew of evolution, off course He Knew The One True God As Well, not the one Christianity created to scare little children. The same church that teaches logic and reason are the tools of satan.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Species adapt to their environment to best suit natural selection. If the species fits into a niche perfectly then it has no reason to change. Hence, the coelacanth is a good example.

    Deist with a B.A. In Anthropology (Archaeology)

    Evolution is a scientific theory and a fact.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Simply put, because there was no reason for them to evolve into anything else!

    Turtles are already well-enough adapted to their environment for there not to be any "easy" mutation that will give them a definite survival advantage.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Come on mate! be fair a turtle is a really slow animal, 75000000years is hardly enough time

  • Bibs
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Many species reach a dead end in the evolutionary process. Or maybe under the right enviromental conditions, they might evolve further.

  • 1 decade ago

    They may have. It wouldn't mean all turtles disappeared. It would mean that there are other species around that once shared a common ancester with turtles.

  • 1 decade ago

    maybe because they have found thier "niche" and have not evolved much because they are well-suited to thier environment that new mutations do not stick.

    evolution through mutations and natural selection is a responce to the environment, not a goal.

    if a creature doesn't develop significant or any changes it means it is already well-adapted to its environement to survive.

  • 1 decade ago

    I know why you didn't provide the link:

    http://www.livescience.com/animals/080827-pregnant...

    "Both specimens, described this week in the journal Biology Letters, belong to an extinct turtle in the Adocus genus, a large river turtle that resembles today's slider and cooter turtles."

    "Resembles" does not equal "the same". As for why they have not changed drastically, they didn't need to.

    Source(s): Lying for Jeebus. Isn't that a sin?
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    why should they? They are not identical, but clearly their habitat hasn't changed, so why should turtles change? They are clearly onto a good thing being turtles.

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