Some turtles have flippers and spend their entire lives swimming while others hang out on the shore, rocks, or beaches on occasion and burrow in the mud when they get cold. Instead of webbed feet, tortoises have round feet that look like stumps and help them walk on land.
They live in dry and hot habitats, and some even eat cactus. To avoid the sun, some dig burrows and head underground. Most tortoises have shells that are higher with more of a domed shape. Feedback Tired of Typos? Word of the Day. Meanings Meanings. What is a turtle? What is a tortoise? It sounds like this Wonder was just perfect for you today! Thanks for coming out of your shell to say hello today! Hey there, Mason! Thanks for visiting us today! We Wonder what you've learned from today's turtle-riffic Wonder?
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Put your brain into overdrive and fire up the ol' imagination. Zoo Map Tickets. Home Our Blog. Nashville Zoo Our Latest Posts. Tortoises have more rounded and domed shells where turtles have thinner, more water-dynamic shells. Turtle shells are more streamlined to aid in swimming. One major key difference is that tortoises spend most of their time on land and turtles are adapted for life spent in water. Also, turtles live in a lot of different habitats — they're aquatic and also terrestrial, so living in a lot of different habitats has allowed them to persist.
All the animals alive today that protect themselves with a shell — basically just a modified rib cage — are in the order Testudines. Collectively, we call this group of animals "turtles," but individually, we might call them different things based on where they live and some morphological and physiological traits. A tortoise is a type of turtle. In general, both turtles and tortoises as well as other reptiles lay their eggs on land — it's what makes them different from amphibians, which need water for egg-laying and at least part of their life cycle.
Because tortoises are turtles, it's difficult to lay down hard and fast rules about what makes something tortoise-ish rather than turtle-ish. But in general, tortoises are always found on land, whereas turtles can be found in aquatic or marine habitats as well as land. They have four legs, but the front legs are almost like wings or paddles — they're not great for moving around on land at all because they're adapted for swimming quickly. Their shells have a low, flat profile for cutting through the water.
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