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Originally Posted by Jarrah White
I am the only one who realises that a mother turtle can lay up to twenty eggs in one breeding cycle? If that's the case, then theres a possibility that Leo, Raph, Don and Mikey have more brothers, or even sisters! Donny might be able to trace these relitives (If any) via DNA sigiture, of course none of them would be mutants but it's still a family reunion.
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I remember reading in my science books in grade school (which seems like a million years ago) that many baby turtles do not live longer than 24 hours. Since most mother turtles give birth on beaches and whatnot, after the baby turtles hatch, they have to squirm and wiggle their way back to the ocean. Most are picked off by birds flying in the area, or some other predator, before they ever make it to their home.
So while a mother turtle may produce 20 or so offspring, only a handful will live long enough to find a home in the ocean. We should consider ourselves lucky; instead of Michaelangelo, we could have gotten Venus de Milo.
The old cartoon never would have survived its first season.
"Is this really the time for us to be telling our life story?" - Donatello, from "Blast from the Past"