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Can a turtle remove its shell?

April 26, 2017remove Shell turtle

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Can a turtle remove its shell?

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No. A sea turtles shell consists of bone from fused ribs and vertebrae (back bones) covered in Keratin (the material human finger nails are made of). Although on the outside of the turtle, the shell is very much alive and forms the turtle’s only form of from would-be predators’.