Aldabra is also the original habitat of the giant land tortoise.

Apart from a wide variety of plant and bird life, the island is home to 109 giant land tortoises.

Australia is the only continent without any living species of land tortoise.

After much pulling, they raised another one; and under it was a large land tortoise, with several little ones, no larger than a walnut.

He's just one of those little green turtles . . . not a land tortoise or anything.

In the 1970s the overturned shell of an extinct giant land tortoise was found on the 27 meter ledge.

We saw the famous land tortoises, and even a few Galapagos Penguins!

The near extinction of mighty land tortoises by little rodents was certainly a David-and-Goliath story.

To help visualize this forward motion, you may wish to picture the blistering pace of the land tortoise.

She pawed the air in perfect futility, just as a land tortoise on its back would have done.