http://www.news24.com/News24/Backpage/AnimalAntics/0,5583,2-1343-1348_1289965,00.html
If this is real is there at least a picture of the thing?
From a quick Google search (“giant turtle Vietnam”):
http://www.cnn.com/EARTH/9804/13/vietnam.turtles.ap/
There’s even video!
Thank you for that Mikan.
note to self google is your friend 
Now i’m just going to go to it to find out more about the rare species in Shanghai mentioned in the article.
Yeah, I got your turt…no that would be wrong, so wrong. Must think of board tone.
Gamera is our friend! 
That was funny, Bosda
Yeah at least until he decides to attack Tokyo,then you’ll see his true intent.
So, have they determined whether this monster breathes through his butt ?
Does this turtle have initials carved into it’s shell?
That video reminded me of the Loch Ness Monster photos. I can almost see the guy in the swimsuit holding up that little turtle head!
[sub]If it is a real monster turtle video, I apologize for any offense to the videographer or his family, and to the monster turtle and it’s family.[/sub]
My favorite line in the news article was that [inaccurate quote] “since this is in the middle of Hanoi, many people can experience it.”
[Americentrism on]No prob. Think I’ll stop by over lunch!
Name the Roald Dahl short story that featured a giant turtle.
“The boy who talked to animals?”
I thought the same thing, except I was wondering how the diver had gotten a hold of one of the Graboids from Tremors.
i thought turtles breathed throw there shells do they?
Speaking of breathing…
What film is that from? I can remember the ending of it where one of the characters tosses a necklace overboard and it drifts down and passes a giant sea turtle with initials carved into its shell. There was an article in Discover not too long ago that stated scientists now believed that turtles are immortal. I know that the world’s largest snapping turtle is thought to be over fifty years old.
Well, there’s a tortoise that was originally collected by Charles Darwin himself–and at last report, was still alive 169 years later.
Tuckerfan, It’s not a movie; it’s a book. I read it in second or third grade, back during the Truman administration. The book title is Minn, about a snapping turtle hatched at the headwaters of the Mississippi. When he (she?) was just a silver dollar sized turtle someone wanted to carve “Minnesota” on his shell but because he was so small there was only room for the first four letters. Turtle makes his way down the river with great adventures and end up as a hogshead size snapper sitting on a pile of pirate treasure someplace in a Louisiana bayou. Wonderful illustrations.
Spavined, I have no doubt that there’s such a book, but there’s also a movie, made in the late 70’s, IIRC. One of the characters was an Atlantean or a mermaid, and its her initials, along with another character’s that are carved into the turtle’s shell.