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Florida Rescue Takes in Baby Tortoise Found Covered in Concrete and Frees it from Cement Shell

The gopher tortoise hatchling likely walked through "freshly poured concrete" before a local wildlife center found it Tracey Harrington McCoy is a celebrity news writer at PEOPLE Digital. She has been ...
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Denver Zoo Welcomes Precious Tiny Tortoise Who Fits in the Palm of Your Hand

The Denver Zoo welcomed a new member to the family recently, a rare African pancake tortoise that's so small she can fit in the palm of your hand! The TODAY Show shared a video of the baby on TikTok ...
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Toronto Zoo Celebrating the Birth of its First Itty-Bitty Critically Endangered Tortoise

The Toronto Zoo welcomed their first baby Madagascar spider tortoise, who hatched on May 2 Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, animal ...
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ECOVIEWS: Some tortoises are tiny

What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that roam like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...
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Discovery of lonely tortoise doubles known members of Galapagos species

The discovery in 2019 of a lone small female tortoise living on one of the most inaccessible islands of the Galapagos Islands has baffled evolutionary biologists. Only one other tortoise, a large male ...
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Galapagos tortoise species was thought to be extinct until a female loner’s discovery

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. When a small female ...