Virginia Henley

To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else. Writing is not a job; it is a lifestyle, and it is a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows. You need self-confidence and an iron carapace.

British Writer

Antony Gormley

The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of primal elements within that kind of carapace of lead.

British Artist

Marshall McLuhan

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

Canadian Sociologist

Primarily used to describe the protective part of an animal's body; often related to biology.

Biological Context

While typically hard, carapaces can vary in flexibility depending on the animal species.

Not Always Hard

A carapace is usually a distinct and visible part of an animal's body covering the upper section.

Visibly Distinct

Used metaphorically, the term implies a protective barrier or emotional guard.

Symbolic Shield

It's also applied to inanimate objects, suggesting a guard or housing.

Mechanical Enclosure

Can be used to create a strong visual image of something as hard and impenetrable.

Visual Imagery

 about loggerhead sea turtles, because they've got fascinating life histories, haven't they? Yes, they do. Well, sea turtles, they have a really thick shell and the top part is called a carapace. So I've actually brought part of a skeleton here and we can see this is the top part of the shell part of it, and what's interesting is that the ribs are actually fused to the shell. So these are actually the ribs here and that makes them susceptible to anything that could encounter them. Evolutionary speaking, it's very, very nice it's a hard shell of armour and now with humans, things can be a little bit more difficult for them with these shells.

The Sea Turtles of...

 their bacteria on the outside they're basically farming the bacteria and picking them up with their mouth parts are stuffing the bacteria in their mouth I was feeding that way but what's particular about these guys is they don't have ice box like being a little instead they have these patches on their back organs underneath their carapace

Beyond the edge of the...

 Named Desmatochelys padillai, it was six feet long and had the characteristic features of modern sea turtles including a carapace, or a top shell, and paddle-like limbs. Today, there are seven species of sea turtles with the largest being the leatherback. Growing as long as eight feet

Sea Turtles 101 PIPE...

 and help them turn right-side up if they fall on their backs. Leatherback and softshell turtles have shells without the ring of bone around the edge of the carapace or the tough scutes covering it, making it easier for them to squeeze into tight spaces.

How turtle shells...

 But I'm talking about the crabs actually doing the chewing. Crab chewing is actually really fascinating. Crabs have this complicated structure under their carapace called the gastric mill that grinds their food in a variety of different ways.

Michael Dickinson: How a...

 are you typically aren't quite round having a sort of carapace like that with little and what would you call that I don't even know what words I'm trying to find today but it's got sort of a very bumpy back and it's got a long proboscis

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 turtles as possible before we release the turtle we've been drying the carapace and using spray-paint to mark a line either horizontally or vertically on the carapace depending on the treatment and

Over 100,000 Sea Turtles...

 leash she lays an egg on the roaches underside and buries her work about two days later the egg hatches into a larva that punches a hole through the roaches carapace and starts feeding the roach is

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 branch itself to smash the insects on the branch if it's a bee help to remove the sting or if it is some form of hard shelled insect use the branch to sort of break the carapace

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 buried stone and sits motionless a few minutes later the carapace above the thorax begins to split and the dragonfly begins to ease itself out of the nymphs exoskeleton

Carapace