How the turtle got its unique hard shell

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Some changes happen much more rapidly due to extraordinary environmental pressure, such as documented in isolated or invasive species. A good example is the Podarcis sicula who not only changed behavioraly, but had different head skeletal structure and new organs to help digest plants in only 30 years.

http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/06/03/rsbl.2010.0371.full