Tortoise

The small island looked like a tortoise from a distance.

The hare was outdistanced by the tortoise.

A hare raced with a tortoise.

The hare was overtaken by the tortoise.

The Galapagos Islands giant tortoise known as Lonesome George is dead.

The giant tortoise Lonesome George has died on the Galapagos Islands.

Lonesome George, the last remaining tortoise of his kind, died of unknown causes.

Lonesome George was the last giant tortoise of his kind.

The world rests upon an elephant and the elephant rests upon a tortoise.

The islet resembled a tortoise from afar.

The tortoise, with its characteristic protrusion of the head and neck, was a symbol sacred to Venus. It represented the procreative principle.