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Escaped Tortoise Missing for Over 3 Years in Florida Is Found Just 3 Miles From Her Home
A tortoise that went missing from the yard of her Florida home in 2020 has been reunited with her owner over three years later, after being found just 3 miles ...
November 2, 2023
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Louise Chambers
Tortoise, Frank the Tank, Found Wandering in a BC Field of Bok Choy Needs Home
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October 17, 2023
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Meet the World’s Oldest Living Land Animal, Jonathan the Tortoise Who Is 190 Years Old
The world's oldest living land animal on record, a tortoise named Jonathan who resides on St. Helena island, ...
October 22, 2022
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Airport Workers Seize 185 Baby Galápagos Tortoises Wrapped in Plastic, Packed in Suitcase
Airport customs officials in Ecuador have intercepted a suitcase packed with 185 baby tortoises, en route from the Galápagos ...
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October 7, 2020
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440lb Galapagos Tortoise Celebrates 54th Birthday With Watermelon Cake at Perth Zoo
An adorable tortoise has proudly celebrated his 54th birthday by enjoying a special watermelon cake to mark the ...
October 1, 2020
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Janus the Two-Headed Tortoise Gets Ready to Celebrate Her 23rd Birthday in September
The two-headed Roman god Janus has found his namesake in a two-headed Greek tortoise at the Museum of ...
August 11, 2020
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Jonathan the Tortoise Celebrates 188th Birthday, Is Said to Be the Oldest Land Animal on Earth
On a remote volcanic island in the South Atlantic, there lives a Seychelles giant tortoise named Jonathan, who ...
July 20, 2020
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130-Year-Old Breeding Galápagos Tortoise Saved His Species From Near Extinction, Retires on Española Island
When Galápagos giant tortoise Diego arrived in the Santa Cruz Island breeding program in 1976, his species (Chelonoidis ...
March 18, 2020
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187-Year-Old Jonathan the Tortoise of St. Helena Is the World’s Oldest Land Animal
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March 23, 2019
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Tortoise Burned in Fire Gets Second Chance With 3D Printed Shell
A tortoise got a second chance at life after a team of designers made a 3D-printed shell to ...
May 23, 2016
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80-Year-Old Galapagos Tortoise Has 9 Babies at Swiss Zoo
An 80-year-old Galapagos tortoise recently gave birth to nine babies at the Zurich Zoo in Switzerland. She laid ...
May 20, 2016
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Chinese Netizens Call This Zoo an ‘Animal Concentration Camp’
A scandal enveloped the zoo after tourists were found to be mounting giant tortoises and forcing them to ...
May 13, 2015
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Giant Tortoises Have a Sweet Tooth for Invasive Plants
Invasive plants and animals are almost universally lambasted for what they do to ecosystems, but giant tortoises in ...
April 8, 2015
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