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.
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.
They get the name from their large, block like heads.
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.
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 :)
They can close their shell like a box.
Famous Italian Renaissance painters
the scientific name of a sea turtle is chelonia mydas....
The Loggerhead Sea Turtle
The Hawaiian green sea turtle.
They don't live in a country, they live in the sea. Hense the name "sea" turtle.
the name lol
the Green sea turtle's scientific name is Chelonia mydas
# green turtle # box turtle # wood turtle # stinkpot turtle
Dermochelys coriacea is the scientific name for the leatherback sea turtle.'Leatherback' is named for its unique shell which is composed of a layer of thin, tough, rubbery skin, strengthened by thousands of tiny bone plates that makes it look "leathery."
A Sea Turtle on a Sea turtle doing it
they are called a bale
crush, dude
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