A team of specialists in Brazil have designed a new 3D printed replacement shell for a tortoise whose armour was destroyed in a bushfire last year. The self-titled “Animal Avengers” – a Sao Paulo-based volunteer team comprising four vets, a dental surgeon and a 3D designer – used 3D printing technology to help create a new shell for tortoise “Freddy”, after 85 percent of her original shell was damaged in a forest fire, GC Noticias reports. Designer Cicero Moraes said he was able to design the new shell by comparing photos of other healthy turtles with those of the injured Freddy.

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