Animals

Basking in the Sun

Caught it out of the water this time. You can see the spiny knobs on the carapace below the neck and on the back of the carapace, along with the yellow outline going around the rim that identifies it. It was large, about the size of a manhole cover.
Pallid Spiny Softshell (Apalone spinifera ssp. pallida)

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