Are there any animals that may look like they have a certain characteristic but don't?

Question

Well, first of all my friend thinks a turtle kind of has scales because she says it looks like it. Obviously, its not true and a turtle can't kind of have scales because they don't even have any. Its either they do or not. But what im wondering is, are there animals like that? I want to prove that they don't even have scales at all. Can you make a list or something? It could be any type of source like from a website.

Answer 1

"obviously, its not true"

that's a great argument, apart from one little flaw:  you are wrong.

Answer 2

Lol show her a scale and then show her what a turtles shell looks like. If she still disagees, take her to an eye doctor.

Answer 3

turtles do have scales

http://www.nps.gov/pais/naturescience/im...

as for the rest of the question.. i can only think of mimicking - like a mexican milk snake (thatisnt venomous) copies the colours of the coral snake (that is venomous)

and a baby cheetah from above looks like an aggressive honey badger

Answer 4

uh – do you speak English? Could you repeat that in English. All I got was that somebody thought turtles don't have scales. But they do.