turtle, n.Trivia

Giant tortoises can live in captivity longer than any other animal

Turtles give away their gender by the noise they make. Males grunt and females hiss

All tortoises are turtles. But, not all turtles are tortoises.

Some turtles can breathe through their butts as well as their mouths

The dinosaur noises used in the movie "Jurassic Park" were made from recordings of turtles having sex.

The female loggerhead turtle will sometimes travel thousands of kilometers to return to the beach where they hatch their eggs.

Galapagos turtles can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.

The Chinese soft shell turtle is the first animal known to be able to pee out of its mouth.

Charles Darwin’s pet turtle outlived him by 124 years. It was 176 years old by the time it passed away.

painted turtles breath through their butts (cloaca) in the winter, absorbing oxygen from the water when under frozen ponds

Charles Darwin brought back a 5 year old Tortoise named Harriet from the Galápagos Islands that would be later owned by Steve Irwin. Harriet died in 2006 at the age of 176.