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  2. Giant tortoise - Wikipedia

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    An Aldabra giant tortoise, an example of a giant tortoise.. Giant tortoises are any of several species of various large land tortoises, which include a number of extinct species, [1] as well as two extant species with multiple subspecies formerly common on the islands of the western Indian Ocean and on the Galápagos Islands.

  3. Galápagos tortoise - Wikipedia

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    The Galápagos tortoise or Galápagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis niger) is a very large species of tortoise in the genus Chelonoidis (which also contains three smaller species from mainland South America). The species comprises 15 subspecies (13 extant and 2 extinct).

  4. Megalochelys - Wikipedia

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    Megalochelys ("great turtle") is an extinct genus of tortoises that lived from the Miocene to Pleistocene.They are noted for their giant size, the largest known for any tortoise, with a maximum carapace length of over 2 m (6.5 ft) in M. atlas.

  5. Jonathan (tortoise) - Wikipedia

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    Jonathan (hatched c. 1832) [2] [3] is a Seychelles giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa), a subspecies of the Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea).His approximate age is estimated to be 192 as of 2024, making him the oldest known living land animal.

  6. Aldabra giant tortoise - Wikipedia

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    As of 2022, Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise, is thought to be the oldest living giant tortoise at the age of 192 years. [25] Esmeralda, an Aldabra giant tortoise, is second at the age of 180 years, since the death of Harriet, a Galapagos giant tortoise, at 175. An Aldabra giant tortoise living on Changuu off Zanzibar is reportedly 198 ...

  7. Diego (tortoise) - Wikipedia

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    Diego in 2019 Detail of head, 2009. Diego is a Hood Island giant tortoise.Thought to have been hatched on Española Island, Galápagos, he was captured as a young adult and shipped to the United States where he was exhibited at zoos.

  8. Meet Fernanda the giant tortoise from a species believed ...

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    Scientists have reported that a rare species of giant tortoise thought to have died out more than a century ago is not in fact extinct. Genetic research has shown that a female specimen discovered ...

  9. Fernandina Island Galápagos tortoise - Wikipedia

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    Chelonoidis niger phantasticus (commonly known as the Fernandina Island Galápagos tortoise or Narborough Island giant tortoise) is a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise that was discovered in 1906 and thought extinct, until a single female was discovered living on Fernandina Island by an expedition in February 2019.

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