Here is an amazing story combining Autodesk Memento software and 3D printing to help save endangered tortoise lives in the American Southwest.

3-D Printed Shells Help Tortoises Survive Hostile Desert Life –FastCo

Conservationists are using new technology to study what eats the slow-moving critters—and then tricking those predators into stopping.

“A team in the South Western U.S. is using 3-D printed tortoise shells to help the dwindling desert tortoise population. But these aren’t replacements for damaged shells. They’re high-tech decoys, designed to confuse one of the tortoise’s worst predators.”