by Kaylin Martin
Red-eared sliders (Trachemys scripta elegans) are the most popular pet turtles in the United States. This one in Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Alcohol House has two heads. Due to extensive trading and people releasing their pets into the wild, red-eared sliders are listed as one of the world’s 100 most invasive species.
Kaylin Martin is a curatorial assistant in the Section of Herpetology. She blogs about the collection in Carnegie Museum
of Natural History’s historic Alcohol House, which is home to thousands of fluid-preserved specimens.
