Originally Posted by Acro-nym
I'm curious how we know its age for sure. From what I know, scientists have a great deal of trouble studying tortoises because the tortoises live so much longer than the scientists. It's due to this that we don't actually know how long a tortoise can live. We just have estimates.
Go, Harriet! Try for 350!
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Well, if I am not mistaken, they picked her up when she hatched. But of course that is all over the news now ...
interesting information i read: For many years she was though of as being a "he", and the latest DNA checks revealed that it's probably not Darwin's pet at all to begin with.
Jam it back in, in the dark.