A shiny, well-maintained shell typically indicates a healthy tortoise with good nutrition and care. Conversely, a dull or damaged shell may signal nutritional deficiencies, stress, or illness.

Moraes said the process for printing a 3-D tortoise shell is "relatively simple." The 3-D designers took photographs of Freddy and a healthy tortoise and then used computer programming to design a ...

The tortoise’s shell is constructed of the carapace, the top of the shell, and the plastron, which is the bottom. The sections are fused together on the sides by a bony bridge.

A two-headed tortoise has come out of its shell in Dorset to find itself in the media spotlight. The unusual case of a Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoise, born two months ago in an incubator, made ...