If you have a tortoise at home like me, don’t expect them to grow like Galapagos tortoises, expect them to reach a certain age and not grow at all! Galapagos tortoises are known to be called giant tortoises, and are the size of 5 feet and 500 pounds! Normal tortoises are known to live for 80 years or some even 100, but these Galapagos tortoises can live up to 175 years which is the world record for any land vertebrates.

Did you know the Spanish word for tortoise is Galapagos, so in translate, it would be Tortoise tortoise! There are only 13 types of Galapagos tortoise- or Tortoise tortoise- so we have to protect them now!