It eats rats, mice, frogs and other snakes. It does not eat people. It only bites people when it is frightened. There are over 260 million kinds of turtles. A turtle is a reptile and is cold-blooded with scaly skin, and lay eggs.
Turtles are the oldest group of reptiles.
They have been on the earth for over 200 million years. In the winter turtles hibernate. All turtles have shells and many can live to be over 100 years old. The bottlenose dolphin lives in shallow waters with lots of fish. A dolphin lives up to 37 years.