mata mata turtle

Speaking of turtles and tortoises, this is probably the ugliest turtle I've ever seen. Okay , make it the ugliest animal or living thing on earth.

It's name , in spanish means "it kills, it kills". You can insert any joke you want here.

Its face looks like my puke on Sunday school many , many years ago.

This is its face. The snout in the middle is used to breathe over the surface of the water. I don't know what the other two snouts do.

Check out his smile. It says , "I'm happpyyyy ... "

This is how it eats small fish. Looks quite violent eh ...

To read more :

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mata_mata
• http://whozoo.org/Anlife99/diegoben/finalmataindex.htm
• http://www.tortoise.org/archives/matamata.html