Female tortoises are quite impressive, weighing in at around 250 pounds. But males can easily double that, tipping the scales at 600 pounds or more. Until the 17th century, hundreds of thousands ...

Prehensile-tailed skinks and Aldabra tortoises. If you’re unfamiliar ... that typically have reduced limbs and smooth, overlapping scales. The animal is the longest member of the skink family ...