Chinese soft-shelled turtle excretes urea mainly through mouth instead of kidney

[Shrike]

Here's a weird finding for the turtle aficionados out there. For the laymen:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...urtles-urine-pee-mouth-science-animals-weird/

For the scholarly folk:

http://jeb.biologists.org/content/215/21/3723.full.pdf+html

 

[Shell]

Well isn't that interesting....and slightly disgusting.