Scientific investigations on turtles Packard, G. C., J. K. Tucker, D. Nicholson, M. J. Packard, F. J. Janzen, and C. Phillips. 1997. Scientific investigations on turtles. Reprinted by U.S. Geological Survey, Environmental Management Technical Center, Onalaska, Wisconsin, November 1997. LTRMP 97-R027. 13 pp. (NTIS #PB98-114705) ABSTRACT This publication contains reprints of three articles on turtles, which originally appeared in the Copeia 1997 2:339 345 and 1:166 173 and Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 1996, 31(4):62 63. KEYWORDS Chelydra serpentina, common snapping turtle, eggs, Illinois, hatchling size, red-eared slider, Trachemys scripta, twinning, turtle