These snaps taken recently and in the late 1800s show Jonathan the giant tortoise, who turns 190 this year and is believed to be the oldest tortoise to ever live. It is not known exactly when Jonathan was born, but experts believe he hatched around 1832, making him an astonishing…
German customs officers have seized a protected tortoise skeleton along with its shell that was shipped from Switzerland to Germany as a home decoration. The officials at the Donauwoerth Customs Office located in the southern German state of Bavaria found the tortoise and its shell in a package on 19th…
A Chinese woman has found the body of her long lost missing tortoise under her bed and hard as stone as if it had been fossilised after it went missing in 2009. Ms Zhang, from the city of Chengdu in the Chinese province of Sichuan, found her old tortoise on…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGieZbxZjaY Parque Nacional Galapagos/Real Press DNA testing has confirmed that a tortoise found in the Galapagos Islands is a member of a species that was believed to have gone extinct over 100 years ago. The Ecuadorian government announced that after running DNA tests on a female tortoise found on the…
A man has been spotted walking the streets of a Malaysian town with a giant tortoise on a lead. The bizarre pet ‘walkies’ took place in the city of Johor Bahru located in the Malaysian state of Johor and the images have been widely shared on social media. The Facebook…