Turtle has a formidable resistance to starvation, which can reach up to 400 days.
The world’s worst turtle is currently leatherback turtle Luthor, which weighs 700 kg and a length of 2-3 m, it swims with a speed of 100 m race athlete and lives only in marine waters.
The largest living land tortoises in the Galapagos Islands and Indian Ocean Islands. They exceed 1 m in length and weighing 250-400 pounds.
In North America a turtle lives about 100 kg, which is distinguished by its irregular shell and a language provided with a worm-shaped appendage that moves him so convincing, that attracts fish right in the mouth.
Most populated island with giant tortoises is Aldabra Seychelles archipelago (Indian Ocean), declared a nature reserve. On this island there are over 100,000 giant tortoises.
Testudo Radiata tortoise species lives over 200 years.
Gobi Desert in 1961 was discovered the skeleton of a giant-sized turtles. He belonged to the species and to 2 m height Ankylozaur and 5 m length, reason for which geologists have called a “tank climber.”
Cuban coast was found in 1937 a giant turtle with a length of 4 m and over 500 years old, which means that he lived since the time when Columbus discovered America.
