A turtle's shell is part of its body and can feel a touch.
The shell is joined to the turtle's backbone and ribs. A turtle can never crawl out of its shell.
🐢 Amazing Turtle Facts
Turtles are shelled animals that swim in the sea and come ashore to lay eggs.
Sea turtles can cross a whole ocean and find the same beach.
Baby sea turtles swim far out to sea. Years later they can find their way back to the very beach where they hatched, using Earth's magnetism like a map.
Some pond turtles can live for many, many years — even past 50.
Turtles grow slowly and can have very long lives compared to lots of other animals.
Turtles have been around since the time of the dinosaurs.
Turtles are a very old kind of animal and have looked much the same for a very long time.