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Gramps is happy that the all-you-can-eat salad bar is starting to turn green again. #tortoise #GopherTortoise
‘#TED gave me editorial freedom to say what I wanted. The #Guardian/ #Observer won’t even allow me to write about it, in any form.I pitched a piece for this Sunday about the experience.
It would be my last article for the paper, it transfers to #Tortoise next week who have declined to renew my contract; an epitaph to my 20-year career there and an an end point to an investigation that brought the Guardian and Observer extraordinary kudos and the most money it has ever raised from any story.’
An #Endangered #GalápagosTortoise Is a First-Time Mother at 100
Mommy, a Western Santa Cruz #tortoise, recently welcomed four hatchlings at the Philadelphia Zoo, where she has lived since 1932.
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #Wildlife #Conservation #EndangeredSpecies
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/science/galapagos-tortoise-hatchlings-philadelphia-zoo.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=A6E5477C-AD56-4113-BA56-44EF946D02FB
Nieuws: Met Oganesson komt Tortoise terug aan het muziekfront
https://writteninmusic.com/nieuws/met-oganesson-komt-tortoise-eindelijk-terug-aan-het-muziekfront/
A giant tortoise snacks at #Galápagos national park, #Ecuador
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
C'è un nuovo singolino dei Tortoise là fuori, che anticipa «un lavoro più ampio che sarà pubblicato prossimamente via International Anthem e Nonesuch Records (dettagli TBA)». Ci accontentiamo.
Tortoise – Oganesson
Is the galaxy tiny? Or is the tortoise astronomically large?
This galactic tortoise is a 2" clear sticker for ALL Sticker Club members this month!
Sign up by the end of March for your own! https://subscribestar.adult/posts/1702903
Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise, is the world's oldest known living land animal. As of 2025, he is estimated to be around 192 years old.
Post-rock band Tortoise released a single this week titled "Oganesson," a jazzy krautrock-ish number. It's their first new track in nine years! New album or EP of some sort to come "soon."
Tortoise return with first new recording in almost 10 years
![<img alt="Tortoise return with first new recording in almost 10 years" src="https://theneedledrop.com/content/images/2025/03/unnamed--20-.jpg" /><p>Influential instrumental rock band <strong>Tortoise</strong> have not released new music since their 2016 album <em>The Catastrophist, </em>itself their first album in seven years at that point. But now, all of that has changed, as the band has just released its first new music in nearly a decade.</p><p>"Oganesson" is out now, with a video animated by Rob Shaw. Watch/listen below:</p><figure class="kg-card kg-embed-card"></figure><p>Tortoise formed in 1990, and were early purveyors of the "post-rock" sound, although their music incorporated several intersecting genres. Their self-titled debut record came out in 1994, and featured Dan Bitney, Bundy K. Brown, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs and John McEntire. Brown left the band in the mid 90s and was replaced by David Pajo, who played with the band until just after their landmark 1998 LP, <em>TNT. </em>After that, Jeff Parker took up the spot, cementing the current quintet.</p><p>They have released seven albums between 1994 and 2016, and have also done several collaborations, such as an EP with The Ex called <em>In the Fishtank</em>, and an eclectic covers album with Bonnie "Prince" Billy called <em>The Brave and the Bold.</em></p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img alt="Tortoise return with first new recording in almost 10 year](https://theneedledrop.com/content/images/2025/03/unnamed--20-.jpg "<img alt=\"Tortoise return with first new recording in almost 10 years\" src=\"https://theneedledrop.com/content/images/2025/03/unnamed--20-.jpg\" /><p>Influential instrumental rock band <strong>Tortoise</strong> have not released new music since their 2016 album <em>The Catastrophist, </em>itself their first album in seven years at that point. But now, all of that has changed, as the band has just released its first new music in nearly a decade.</p><p>"Oganesson" is out now, with a video animated by Rob Shaw. Watch/listen below:</p><figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\"></figure><p>Tortoise formed in 1990, and were early purveyors of the "post-rock" sound, although their music incorporated several intersecting genres. Their self-titled debut record came out in 1994, and featured Dan Bitney, Bundy K. Brown, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs and John McEntire. Brown left the band in the mid 90s and was replaced by David Pajo, who played with the band until just after their landmark 1998 LP, <em>TNT. </em>After that, Jeff Parker took up the spot, cementing the current quintet.</p><p>They have released seven albums between 1994 and 2016, and have also done several collaborations, such as an EP with The Ex called <em>In the Fishtank</em>, and an eclectic covers album with Bonnie "Prince" Billy called <em>The Brave and the Bold.</em></p><figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img alt=\"Tortoise return with first new recording in almost 10 year")
Cute & Funny Animals 
A 140 year-old #AfricanSpurredTortoise is a #proud Momma to eight tiny babies
#Tortoise #Tortoises #BabyTortoise #BabyTortoises.
I know that Gopher Tortoises are cantankerous beasties, but this one in particular seems to be reveling in my frustration that it dug a burrow right by my front door. Really, my guy? REALLY?
