Name: AHB Series 3 - Big-headed Turtle (Green) – Platysternon megacephalum | Turtle
SKU: AHB-V03-05-TUR
Price: 39.99 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

AHB Series 3 – Big-headed Turtle (Green) – Platysternon megacephalum | Turtle

$39.99

A charming, chubby figure of the Big-headed Turtle (Green) (Platysternon megacephalum) — hand-painted in lifelike detail, ready to display on any desk or shelf.

Approx. Size: L 2.76 in × W 2.28 in × H 1.75 in (L 7 × W 5.8 × H 4.45 cm) · ~0.5 lb (230 g)
Material: Hand-painted resin
Display: Single fixed figure — ready to display

Out of stock

Animal Heavenly Body · A Series of Laugh and Grow

Series 3 · The Turtle & Tortoise Collection

Big-headed Turtle (Green)

Platysternon megacephalum

The Big-headed Turtle in its olive-green form — the same un-retractable-headed climber of Asia’s cold mountain streams.

THE HEAD THAT WON’T TUCK IN · a climber

RangeMountain streams, SE Asia

HabitatCool rocky streams

Adult SizeShell ~7 in (18 cm)

SignatureOversized, un-retractable head

TailNearly as long as the shell

DietSnails, crustaceans, fish

A Series of Laugh and Grow

Real animals, reimagined plump and cheerful — painted in lifelike detail, sculpted impossibly cute.

🐢

Chubby & Full of Character

Rounded, soft and undeniably cute — yet every scale, wrinkle and marking is hand-painted true to the real animal. The reaction it gets in person is always the same: so detailed, and so adorable.

🧸

Ready to Display

A single, sturdy hand-painted piece — no assembly, no fuss. Set it on a desk or shelf and it holds its happy pose, ready to collect and show off.

Here is the big-headed turtle dressed in cool olive greens, the shade that helps it melt into the mossy rocks of a mountain stream. Same oversized head, same long grappling tail, same refusal to play by turtle rules.

Camouflaged for the Current

Its olive-green shell and head blend against algae-slicked stones in the clear, cold streams it prefers, hiding this odd turtle from both predators and prey.

A Head It Cannot Hide

Too large to retract, the head is capped in bone and paired with strong jaws. This is a turtle that meets trouble face-first rather than hiding from it.

Nocturnal Ambusher

By night it hunts snails, crustaceans, fish and frogs among the rocks, using that powerful hooked beak to crack hard-shelled prey.

A Turtle Under Pressure

Prized in the pet and food trades, big-headed turtles are now endangered in the wild — a reminder that even the toughest-looking oddball needs protecting.

“Dressed in river-moss green, built to meet trouble head-on.”

Craft & Specifications

Series	A Series of Laugh and Grow (Series 3) — The Turtle & Tortoise Collection, by Animal Heavenly Body
Approx. Size	L 2.76 in × W 2.28 in × H 1.75 in (L 7 × W 5.8 × H 4.45 cm) · ~0.5 lb (230 g)
Material	Hand-painted resin
Display	Single fixed figure — ready to display out of the box
SKU	AHB-V3-05