Long Live Addwaita: Tortoise Dies at 250

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A zookeeper tends to Addwaita, a giant Aldabra tortoise, inside an enclosure at the Alipore Zoological Garden in Calcutta, India. Addwaita, believed to be the world's oldest surviving tortoise, died of liver failure Wednesday in the Calcutta zoo. Associated Press file photo, 2005, by Bikas Das

(03-24) 08:29 PST CALCUTTA, India (AP) -- One of the world's oldest creatures, a giant tortoise believed to have been about 250 years old, has died in the Calcutta zoo where it spent more than half its long life. Read More

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