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Because of its ability to squeeze its lower shell (plastron) tightly to its upper shell (carapace) leaving no soft body parts exposed when threatened by predators. A hinged plastron allows it to do so. Someone must have thought that this resembled a tightly closed box.

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12y ago

because when they get scared they box up like a box to pretect themselfs

The underside of a Box turtle has a hinged plate which bends upward and closes when the turtle pulls its head in.

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15y ago

They get the name from their large, block like heads.

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12y ago

The sea turtle got its name from swimming in the water so much, the doctors figured that they should call it a sea turtle because it spends alot of time in water and on land.

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11y ago

Snapping turtles are turtles and the have powerful jaws and lure tongues that lure fish close to their mouths and the SNAP... no more fish. And I think you get the point from there :)

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10y ago

They can close their shell like a box.

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13y ago

Famous Italian Renaissance painters

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