Living Earth History offers a comprehensive overview of the extremely diverse and ancient order of turtles. You will find more about the history of development, systematics, biology, and distribution; terrariums and their equipment, care, nutrition, reproduction, and breeding; diseases and their treatment; and more than 90 species portraits from the families alligator, big-head, New World swamp, land, Old World swamp, New Guinea soft, genuine soft, Tobasco shield, crossbreast, mud, snake-neck, and American snake-neck turtles.