Can a tortoise technically live without its shell?

If you look at a turtle skeleton, you’ll notice that the spine and ribs of the animal is connected with the carapace, or shell. To remove the shell is to rip its backbone from its body. (Please don’t try to remove a turtle from its shell, its not like in cartoons). read more

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Taking off a turtles shell, Is like ripping off a humans spine. Turtles, are not like snails, or hermit crabs, where they find new shells, when they get to big. Also turtles shells are their bones, which grow with them. read more