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Three-legged ploughshare tortoise finds new life on rollers
A three-legged specimen of the world's rarest type of tortoise has been fitted with rollers to get it moving again after it was rescued from smugglers. Hope, a ploughshare tortoise, has been given a new home at Chester Zoo after being found in a suitcase by Hong Kong customs officers in 2019.
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How Tagged Turtles Are Boosting Tropical Cyclone Prediction
Even with good data, it’s hard to predict tropical cyclones, which often appear with little warning and wander drunkenly around the world’s oceans. But five years ago, Olivier Bousquet was tasked with forecasting storms’ strengths and paths in the cyclone-infested southwest Indian Ocean. The solution: Turtles!
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