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World Turtle

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A concept of a future turtle for the Allocene project. This descendent of s soft shelled fresh water turtle did not harden its shell when it returned to the land but instead started a symbiosis with plants. Mostly carnivorous plants and small plants like these.
The plants offer camouflage for this reptile and the tirtle allows them to spread their seeds more wildely.
The ridges on the edge are another feature for keeping all sorts of dirt and plant matter attached, similar to the many, now covered, ridges on the shell that collect the necessary material for planst to grow. Luckily the turtle lives in very humid environments.
The smybiosis isn't perfect however and the carnicorous plants you see here are about as big as they can get on the turtle (who is barely bigger than a human hand) and they will soon fall off and depending on the amount of other plant matter they take with them will leave the turtle very vulnerable for some time.
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Eastman Kodak Company
Date Taken
Apr 30, 2012, 10:47:54 PM
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Welcome to the age of the pokemon.