Sentences with phrase «like giant tortoises»

The chain of 115 atolls that make up the Seychelles are what desert island dreams are made of: gorgeous white - sand beaches dotted with huge boulders polished smooth by the sea, lush rain forests, unusual wildlife like giant tortoises and seabirds, and healthy coral reefs that make for some of the best diving and snorkeling in the world.

If you're a fan of wildlife (like giant tortoises!)

-- Erma Bomback Tired of feeling like a giant tortoise?

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The plan seems like a good one, says Elizabeth Hunter, an ecologist at the University of Georgia who has studied giant tortoise restoration on the Galapagos Islands but wasn't involved in Pedrono's research.

Like other great science institutions — New York City's American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, in Washington, DC, for instance — the Academy logically might have focused on galleries and displays showcasing portions of its 20 - million - specimen collection, a cornucopia ranging from giant Galapagos tortoise shells to Maasai tribal shields to tyrannosaur fossil bones.

Some species found here — like the land iguana and the giant tortoise — can be found nowhere else on earth.

You visit the Charles Darwin Research Station to see the giant tortoise pens, including tortoise celebriteis like «Lonesome George» within an impressive giant prickly - pear cactus forest, home to many land birds.

Whether you're looking to share space with giant tortoises and dragon - like land iguanas, or hike around massive craters and into subterranean lava tubes, you're sure to find what you're looking for on Santa Cruz Island.

In the 19th century the Seychelles Giant Tortoise, much like similar tortoise species on other Indian Ocean islands, was hunted to extTortoise, much like similar tortoise species on other Indian Ocean islands, was hunted to exttortoise species on other Indian Ocean islands, was hunted to extinction.