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Soft-shelled turtles get VERY big. They have extremely long necks, and long pointy noses that help them breathe (snorkle) when underwater. Their beaks can deliver a very painful bite. And it looks like what you've got here, to me.

Great find! Might have been looking for a place to dig a hole and lay her eggs.

Marcia

Yes its a Softshell don't try to pick it up neck stretches way out. It's probaly a female they are laying eggs at this time of year. They do get big.

Very cool!!! Do you have a pond or stream nearby? Soft-shell turtles do not usually go too far awary from a water source.

In the early days of Florida, those turtles were almost hunted to extermination as both a food source and as souvenirs for Northerners who were here on hunting adventures.

Manatees were also hunted and considered quite 'fair game' back then -- obviously, way before the Audobon Society came along.

There is a pond 3 houses next to mine... so I guess it was coming from there.. This is the first time I see on of these. It was close to a gopher burrow.. (an my backyard is not too big)

We had a family of them in a retention pond ("lake") in Naples and have seen one crossing the road so they do take trips.

In the water they look really cool, almost prehistoric because of their long snorkelly necks. They are much shyer than other turtles and spook easily. And they can really move fast in the water.

Yep. The neck on those things can really freak you out! When I worked for a park management company, I got a frantic call from one of our elderly residents saying a turtle was trying to tear into their screened porch. I assured them that wasn't its intent, as it was simply trying to reach the water that it knew resided somewhere on the other side of their house, and didn't know how to get there.

When I got over to their house, I tried to pick up the turtle to move it around the house, and the thing proceeded to stretch its head out a good six inches or so and curve around and try to see what had a hold of it. Freaky! It was about the size of the one in your picture. Very heavy! Too large to try to hold it way back by its back legs, and if I held it further up, it could reach me with it's beak. I wound up putting it back on the ground and then, wearing my dress and high heels, I proceeded to prod it the 100 feet to the canal.

They are freaky! Neat, but freaky!

Yumm, Cooter Pie on the half shell!

I had a huge one at my garage door, 100' from the front ditch. I've seen a huge common snapping turtle (relative of alligator snapping turtle) climb across my driveway. Always nice to see wildlife. I fed a peach to a box turtle a couple days ago near my back porch.

Gary