Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or treating them like clothing. Biology disagrees. A turtle shell is not an ...

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Learn how Neanderthals in central Europe hunted pond turtles and likely reused their shells as containers or scooping tools.

The sea creature arrived at San Diego's Birch Aquarium in 2014 Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor in Journalism.

Neanderthals hunted turtles but did not rely on them for food - they cleaned and reused the turtle's shells as tools.