A sea turtle’s shell is living bone fused directly to its spine and ribs. It is not a detachable shield or an external case, as certain quirky cartoons have shown. The shell grows with the turtle, ...
Sea mollusc shells are patterned not through conscious control, but by chemistry acting at the shell’s growing edge. A thin strip of tissue known as the mantle secretes both the shell material and its ...
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