Carracosta resembles a bipedal, blue-colored sea turtle. Its stomach is a pale blue, and deep blue rocky structures encrust its face, back, and the sides of its chest forming a "mask" and shell. Its flippers are long, with black fingerlike protrusions at the tips. Carracosta has a thick tail and short legs with two-toed feet.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Carracosta have extremely strong jaws. They also have enough power in their slap to open a hole in the bottom of a tanker.
Behavior
Habitat
Carracosta once lived in the sea millions of years ago. Today, the Pokémon is considered extinct.
Carracosta, the Prototurtle Pokémon and the evolved form of Tirtouga. Living in the sea and on land, Carracosta has incredibly strong jaws and is capable of destroying a giant boulder with one powerful slap.
In the manga
Carracosta in Pokémon Adventures
In the Pokémon RéBURST manga
Zengai has a Carracosta that he can use as a Burst form.
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Black's Tirtouga, Costa, evolved into a Carracosta in his Gym battle against Brycen and defeated Brycen's Beartic to win the battle.
Carracosta and its pre-evolved form are the only Fossil Pokémon to have Rock as their secondary type instead of their primary type.
Origin
Carracosta appears to draw inspiration from Archelon, the largest known species of sea turtle from the Late Cretaceous period. The fact it eats steel beams draws from the fact that sea turtles are able to bend metal bars with their jaws.
Name origin
Carracosta may be a combination of carapace (a hard, protective covering, ie. a shell) and costa (Latin, Spanish and Portuguese for coast, a reference to its habitat). Carra may also refer to the Carrara fossil formation, which contains numerous trilobite fossils.
Abagoura may be a combination of 暴れる abareru (to thrash or act violently), 肋 abara (rib cage), and 甲羅 kōra (shell).