"Grigioni, now back in Switzerland, said she could normally get tortoises to ejaculate within minutes, but spent months manually stimulating George and never extracted semen from him."
posted by mr_crash_davis on Jul 1, 2007 - 46 comments

RIP Harriet. She passed away overnight from a heart attack. She was 175 years old, the size of a dinner table, and may have known Charles Darwin. She was Harriet the Tortoise, the world's oldest living animal, and lived a life of quiet dignity.
posted by justkevin on Jun 23, 2006 - 41 comments

Addwaita is no longer. He has ceased to be. What we have here is a dead 255 year old Aldabra tortoise.
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies on Mar 26, 2006 - 26 comments

Galapagos tortoises look like friendly dinosaurs. One of them just turned 175.
posted by leapingsheep on Nov 21, 2005 - 20 comments