soft-shelled

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Unlike the hard, mineralized eggs of dinosaurs that fossilize easily, soft-shelled eggs tend to decay before they can be preserved.

From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026

It came from a soft-shelled turtle, or trionychid, which researchers think was the animal responsible for the punting tracks.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023

Carrigan to find out what fast food has to do with literature, and what keeps fans crawling back into the soft-shelled embrace of Taco Bell.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2023

Describing the Jordan, she writes, “These waters fuel the tamarisk and the rhododendron blossoming on the riverbanks. . . . These waters host catfish and carp and bream, tiny mollusks and soft-shelled turtles.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2021

Chestnut was especially popular—not the imported European chestnut roasted on Manhattan street corners in the fall, but the smaller, soft-shelled, deeply sweet native American chestnut, now almost extinguished by chestnut blight.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann