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A turtle’s shell is its own ribcage and spine fused into a box, which is why it cannot ever leave it
Almost every popular depiction of a turtle gets this wrong in the same way, treating the shell as a portable house. The reality is stranger, because building a box out of your own ribcage creates a ...
As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s collection of nature books and daydream about the creatures within. One species ...
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