Scientists Discover That Turtles Began Living in Shells Much

Unique among Earth’s creatures, turtles are the only animals to form a shell on the outside of their bodies through a fusion of modified ribs, vertebrae and shoulder girdle bones. The turtle shell is a unique modification, and how and when it originated has fascinated and confounded biologists for more than two centuries.

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How The Turtle Got Its Shell, Where did turtles come from? And how did the they get their shells? The answers to these questions would eventually cause scientists to rethink the

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Scientists Discover That Turtles Began Living in Shells Much Earlier Than Once Thought

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