Croc Hunter’s ‘Bum-Breathing’ Turtle Faces Extinction

by Lauren on September 20, 2008

Before his death two years ago this month, “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin and his father discovered a unique turtle species that, as Irwin said, can “breathe through its bum.”

Researchers are now racing to save the rare and unusual turtle, Elseya irwini, which appears to be dying out as a result of human activities, according to scientists at James Cook Unviersity in Queensland, Australia.

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