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Baby Snapper, Beltsville, Maryland, 1976

A baby snapping turtle and baby bullfrog take advantage of unusual circumstances to get a good look at each other at Beltsville Agricultural Research Center. Once full-grown snapping turtles are at the top of the pond food chain, but until then they are lunch to adult bullfrogs and other predators.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Life Around a Lily Pad," January 1980, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Bianca Lavies