Question

Question : Turtles and tortoises are both handsome folk with lovely shells. But what makes a tortoise different from a turtle?

Answer 1

All tortoises are in fact turtles—that is, they belong to the order Testudines or Chelonia, reptiles having bodies encased in a bony shell—but not all turtles are tortoises.

Answer 2

-One of the most apparent traits that is used to distiguish between a tortoise and a turtle is that the tortoise lives on land while the turtle lives in water.

- The turtles shell is lighter than that of the tortoise. That of the tortoise is bumpier and heavier

- The turtles shell is more streamlined than that of the tortoise.