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In the old days, large green sea turtles were very afraid of humans, from which they fled as fast as they could. “When the turtles saw people, it was like they saw a ghost,” said Mario Pascobello, a resident of Apo Island in the Philippines. “We used to kill them,” …

Two studies that analyzed dozens of species of reptiles and amphibians indicate that there really is something very special about the longevity of turtles. The vast majority of them, it seems, age very slowly or not at all—at least not in the way that humans get older. The conclusions of …

Two studies that analyzed dozens of species of reptiles and amphibians indicate that there really is something very special about the longevity of turtles. The vast majority of them, it seems, age very slowly or not at all—at least not in the way that humans get older. The conclusions of …