Ok I should have specified, small American terrapins cannot. I'm guessing in those cases the tortoise was mostly burried and just the back end got heated up. Gopher tortoises here can survive like that too. But not in this op case of having the entire shell roasted.The grasslands fires in...
That's an old Eastern Box Turtle, native and lovely to see. Could be 50 years old. Their shells get like that. Also a tortoise can't survive their shell being burned in a fire.
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