Yellow-spotted River Turtle

Yellow-spotted Amazon River turtles are native to the Amazon River basin, where they bask along riverbanks and in the calm waters of big rivers and streams. They have webbed feet to help them swim, small heads for eating aquatic food, smooth and leathery skin to help regulate body temperature, broad and flat shells for stability, and short and strong legs for pushing the water to move. The Amazon Rainforest will become very hot and have very few rivers or ponds due to drought. The turtles will have to adapt to moving on land due to these changes. They will develop stronger, longer claws for digging in soil, larger heads for eating a diver diet, ruff skin to help their body temperature, a streamlined shell to help reduce heat, and long legs for walking around the forest.