Hope for the Vietnamese Box Turtle

The birth of any baby is exciting, but sometimes they feel like small miracles. Such is the case at the Bristol Zoo where they have hatched their first baby Vietnamese Box Turtle, a species at risk of extinction.

Hatching of tiny rare turtle is huge breakthrough for city zoo | This is Bristol

Baby Galapagos

I once had a baby tortoise that was this small... It was probably illegal but I did not know that at the time. Somehow though, I always imagined that a baby Galapagos tortoise would be bigger. It turns out they aren't! Click the link to see REALLY cute photographic proof.

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