tortoise
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"It's a very nice place to be. It's just something about the daylight and the peacefulness of it. The cats come with me and sometimes the tortoise as well."
From BBC • May 22, 2026
An Australian company has launched a rare earths mining project just outside Joshua Tree National Park in critical desert tortoise habitat, an area the company’s director refers to as an “emerging heavy rare earth district.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
Alfie is a pet tortoise who lives on Mrs. Silver’s balcony.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
The reintroduction follows a "back-breeding" programme launched in 2017 after scientists discovered tortoises carrying ancestry of the Floreana giant tortoise on nearby Isabela island.
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026
Achilles runs smoothly past the tortoise because the infinite points are simply a figment of Zeno's imagination, rather than a real-world construct.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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