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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

It looks like it was made in Spore

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay so is this photoshopped or what's going on here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Also, repeated liposuction and no exercise.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If turtle shells were on the inside.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Turtle shells are already on the inside. The entire surface of their shells is skin!

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 3 points 1 week ago

So they're more naked than I thought...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks like a turtle without its shell. Are the scientists sure it didnt have a shell made of cartilage thats been lost to time?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know where this particular fella fits in the history, but turtles evolved from similar quadruped reptiles. Basically, their ribs evolved flat and wide so that their chests could support them better while burrowing tunnels. That turned into the turtle plastron.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Huh the more u know

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like this is one of those models we're completely wrong about.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah this looks like a stupid degree of shrink wrapping of the neck.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is he voiced by danny devito?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I can picture it now. An Ice Age movie where Sid, Manny, and Diego are hanging around a bar and this chonky boy shows up out of nowhere and makes an outrageous claim. Queue "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" music.