TURTLES!
TURTLES!
- Date:
- Tuesday, August 26, 2025
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:00pm
- Location:
- Main Auditorium
- Location:
- Main Library (300 N. Roxboro St)
- Audience:
- Adult DPS Elementary School Emerging Adult: 18-24 Year Olds High School Intergenerational Kindergarten Middle School Senior Citizen Teen Toddler Tweens: 9-12 Year Olds
- Categories:
- Durham Environmental Gardening
TURTLES!
Who? What? Where? When? Why?
What is a river cooter? Why do turtles cross roads? Where do most turtles live in the Piedmont? Where are the tiniest turtles located? Who is the largest freshwater turtle in the United States?
The oldest of all living reptiles unchanged in 15 million years...
Painted, chicken, river cooter, bog, box, snapping, yellow bellied, spiny soft shelled....
Living for decades...
The main ingredient in turtle soup...
Selected as North Carolina’s state reptile in 1979 beating alligators, lizards, and snakes...
Join Jeff Beane, Herpetology Collection Manager for the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, to learn more about these patient reptiles!
Jeff Beane is Herpetology Collection Manager for the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, where he has been employed since 1985. A native of Asheboro, he holds a B.S. in Zoology from North Carolina State University (1982) and has authored many popular and scientific natural history publications, including Amphibians and Reptiles of the Carolinas and Virginia, 2nd Edition (UNC Press, 2010). His interests include virtually anything pertaining to natural history or conservation, especially Sandhills and Longleaf Pine ecosystem ecology and the natural history, zoogeography, and conservation of amphibians and reptiles in North Carolina and the Southeast.
August 26th starting at 6 pm in the auditorium of the Durham County Main Library located at 300 North Roxboro Street in Durham.
Registration is appreciated in order to receive notifications about this event. Seating is first come first served. Registration does not hold or guarantee a seat.
Parking is available in the library parking lot or at the North Queen Street Garage (115 North Queen Street) located directly across from the library behind the apartments under construction.
Questions? Email mkoslofsky@dconc.gov
Eastern Box Turtle by Jim Lynch, National Park Service