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[ID: a digital illustration of a brown tortoise with a long neck stretched up to eat a prickly pear fruit.]
The largest extant tortoise at over 900 lbs. They are found only on 7 of the Galapagos islands, and differ in size and shape depending on each island’s ecosystem. They can live over 100 years in the wild.

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