Nearly 100-year-old tortoise becomes 1st-time mom to 4 baby hatchlings
The first of the four hatchlings, all female, began to emerge from its white, hard-shelled egg on Feb. 27, the zoo said. The ...
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Tiny white tortoise baby is the ‘first of its kind'
The white tortoise is one of two Galápagos giant tortoises (Chelonoidis niger) that recently hatched at Tropiquarium, a zoo in Servion, Switzerland.The pair of eggs were laid by a 220-pound (100 ...
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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Endangered tortoises born to 100-year-old parents at Philadelphia Zoo
A couple of residents at the Philadelphia Zoo are telling the likes of Mick Jagger and Robert DeNiro — two famous older fathers — to take a step back. Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises Mommy and ...
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Bird Island: White sand, exotic wildlife & the world's largest tortoise
I don’t think Esmeralda minds.“ Esmeralda is one of many Aldabra tortoises living on Bird Island, a coral cay surrounded by white-sand beaches and can’t-quite-believe-it turquoise sea.