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A beloved pet tortoise is reunited with its family weeks after disappearing in a Mississippi tornado
A beloved pet tortoise named Myrtle has been reunited with its family in Mississippi weeks after disappearing during a deadly ...
Endangered tortoise, roughly 97, becomes oldest first-time mom of her species
Four rare Western Santa Cruz Galalapos tortoise hatchlings will go on public view at Philadelphia Zoo starting April 23.
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Tortoises rule on this isolated island
This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The first time a tortoise walked through my hut at Middle Camp on Aldabra Atoll, I was amazed. I grabbed my camera and ...
Carried by hurricane waves, these tortoises were swept to Florida’s Fort De Soto
On the horizon directly in front of her burrow, about two miles offshore, Egmont Key’s historic lighthouse towered over ...
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Critically endangered tortoise becomes oldest first-time mom in world. See babies
One nearly century-old tortoise has been a fixture of the Philadelphia Zoo since 1932 — and now she’s living up to her name. Mommy, the estimated 97-year-old Western Santa Cruz Galapagos ...