Seein Red

[Spitfire]

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

My girlfriend is a paleontologist, and we've had a conversation or two about the biological nature of the Turtles. She...wanted me to make a list of all the instances where the Turtles sweat in order to figure out whether or not they were ecto or endothermic. Or, possibly poly-thermic....who knows.

But their sweating isn't the only thing that makes no sense from a reptile standpoint. They also have teeth, opposable thumbs, and the wrong number of digits on their hands and feet.

Also, only because I've seen someone else mention it, turtles do not have a shared ancestor with dinosaurs. They two lines co-existed. I wish I could find the link, but there's actually a prehistoric turtle that they found in Australia that was given the Genus species name "ninja turtle". Alas.

I don't think sewers get that cold, otherwise the pipes in them would freeze, and that'd be bad. They're well below the frost line, so they might be protected. That being said, I don't think the turtles are cold-blooded because...well, reptiles tend to go into a type of torpor if their core body temperature is allowed to go down too far.

...which is totally all on topic. I swear...

This post is awesome. I didn't know turtles at one point co-existed with dinosaurs, though it makes perfect sense.

I guess you can't add cold hard scientific fact to the turtles, it just doesn't work.