tortoises

Tortoises can help us understand how to live longer, but do we want to?

science/research / By MikeB / June 24, 2022

A new study of turtles and tortoises published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy Of Sciences found that they barely aged at all in some instances. The lead author of …

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Fred a tortoise whose legs were eaten by hungry rats

Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in tortoises being attacked by rats

Rats / By MikeB / September 27, 2020

Tortoises are being attacked by hungry rats in the UK. The rats are gnawing at the legs of pet tortoises because they have been deprived of food that would normally have been …

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