How To Use giant tortoise In A Sentence
- Their varied climates, ongoing vulcanism and extreme isolation, has produced one of the highest concentrations of endemic species in the world including unusual animals such as the land and marine iguanas, giant tortoises and the many types of finch that inspired Darwin's theory of evolution following his visit in 1835. Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador
- Tangi Talo yielded the remains of pygmy stegodon (a type of elephant), giant tortoise, and Komodo dragons, but no tools. First Mariners
- A sample from Tangi Talo, taken near a pygmy stegodon tusk and giant tortoise shell fragments, yielded a date of about 900,000 years ago. First Mariners
- The Yeliou promontory recalls a giant tortoise slipping out from DatunMountain into the Pacific Ocean, a resemblance that has earned it the nickname of the "Yeliou tortoise.
- Rapid divergence of phenotype but not of genotype is theoretically possible, but given the genetic closeness of the sampled individuals (and this assumes that the extant Giant tortoises identified as D. arnoldi and D. hololissa really are remnants of the same populations as those given these names but based on old material), should they be recognised as species separate from D. dussumieri? Archive 2006-02-01
- The third aquarium would house more than 50 species of freshwater sharks and rays, as well as enclosures for Komodo dragons and giant tortoises.
- Cameron sidestepped two giant tortoises that had bedded down for the night, twinning shadows rising before her. MINUTES TO BURN
- Transported to this bleak planet only to be confronted by a marauding gang of giant tortoises.
- Examples of such dwarfism or gigantism include the giant tortoises of the Seychelles islands, Indonesia's Komodo dragons, and the boas of the Belizean Snake Cayes.
- He bred 120 giant tortoises which amble freely around the island. Times, Sunday Times
