The fossil, which also shows the turtle might have been the. The shell of a turtle can sometimes be soft instead of hard, but it’s still a shell, which is a vital part of the turtle’s body. Recently, however, a fossil turtle was found that had no shell at all, but that did have a beak.
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Scientists have found new evidence confirming that turtles once lived without shells.
Indeed, a turtle cannot survive without its shell.
The ventral portion of the turtle shell also called the plastron, is. This new species, found in china’s guizhou province, did possess a toothless. No, all existing turtle species have a type of shell. They have wide eyebrow bars and no chin spots.
There are a couple of key features that make a turtle a turtle: Its shell, for one, but also its toothless beak. Although it has been hypothesised that the animal, called eunotosaurus africanus, is related to turtles, a new paper published today in the journal nature claims to have found. A study published in the journal nature finds a fossil from a turtle roaming earth 228 million years ago had no shell.
It's given scientists a new understanding of the animals' evolution.
