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are turtles amphibians or what are they?

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turtles are *not* mammals.
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I think he's referring to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles which might be a cross between humans and reptiles and therefore part mammal.

I guess they are not mammals after all.

Turtles = Reptiles. Try a search engine sometime! www.google.com

Although others seem to take this question as an opportunity for humor, you appear to be asking your question in good faith and deserve a decent answer. They are reptiles, defined as cold-blooded vertebrates that either lay eggs with a hard or leathery shell on land or produce living young in some species (but not turtles). Turtles are among the most ancient and primitive of living reptiles and their closest living relatives appear to be the crocodilians. "Amphibian" refers not to a land and water existence, but to the Greek terms "amphi" meaning double or alternate and "bios" meaning life. It refers to most amphibians' transition from an aquatic larvae, usually with gills and fewer legs than the adult form (there are exceptions- I won't go into them here) and going through a metamorphosis to adulthood, such as the fish-like tadpole to a four-legged frog.