Originally Posted by brhoff
Ummmm, technically turtles are reptiles, not amphibians. Worse I ever saw my 6th grade teacher (a sweet, little, old lady) flustered was when I mentioned that and she asked me to prove the differences. When I got to the point that amphibians reproduce by external fertilization and reptiles use internal fertilization, she cut my explanation short. At the lunch table that day, I had a lot of questions from the other students, mainly about birds and bees, not turtles.
Ed, who was mainly a non-fiction sort of child
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