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By all accounts, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were born when radioactive mutagen ooze seeped into a sewer in New York City, transforming four baby turtles into pizza-loving humanoids who were taught ninja techniques by their master, Splinter.
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The world’s oldest living land animal - a Seychelles giant tortoise named Jonathan - has just celebrated his 191st birthday.
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Anyne who has ever heard the expression “it’s turtles all the way down” is probably familiar with the image of the world being carried on the back of a giant turtle. While that philosophical one-liner is of relatively modern vintage, the cosmic turtle mytheme has appeared in disparate cultures across the globe for millennia.
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A three-legged specimen of the world's rarest type of tortoise has been fitted with rollers to get it moving again after it was rescued from smugglers. Hope, a ploughshare tortoise, has been given a new home at Chester Zoo after being found in a suitcase by Hong Kong customs officers in 2019.
Read more: Three-legged ploughshare tortoise finds new life on rollers