Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: A turtle's shell is as much a part of its body as our rib cage is of ours. In fact, it is their rib cage, and their spine, and their vertebrae ...

The plan was to make a giant visual pun, with a turtle carrying the world(s) on its back and having hexagons ... when inserting a map frame. The turtle shell and skulls were drawn manually ...

The top of the shell, or carapace, is dark in color and serrated along the back edge. The bottom shell, or plastron, is smaller than that of most other turtles and exposes a lot of flesh. Most people ...

These reptilian relics are the only remaining representatives of a family of turtles that traces its evolutionary roots back more than ... turtles have hard, bony shells, the inky-blue carapace ...

Repair of injured turtle shells can be difficult and time-consuming. This article describes how to manage the freshwater turtle in this phase of healing and how to keep fracture sites 'water-free'.