We found a turtle like this 3 weeks ago in Birmingham, Alabama. It was on the side of the street near a small stream. We stopped to look at it b/c it was so flat looking. I thought at first it had been run over by a car. There were some people across the street in their yard who came over to look at it, too. They carried it closer to the stream. It wasn't happy about being picked up. It was about the size of an extra large pizza.