I think that tortoises live a longer life is because they have hard shells to protect them. We don't have hard shells attatched to our bodies sowe don't live as long as turtles or tortoises.
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100 Years. 100 Years.
the average turtle lives up to 100 years. a little more than a human.
To answer your question, there are such animals, just as the tortoise. They can grow to be extremely large, and live up to 100 years.
they eat algea and limu and can wiegh up to 500 pounds
100 years or longer
Musk turtles can live up to 50 years if your lucky but they normally live for around 30 - 40 years
well, turtles live up to be 80years old, on average
There are about 270 species of turtles and their life spans vary considerably. Small pond turtles may live for up to 30 years, larger species such as snapping turtles for 60 years or more, box turtles for about 100 years, and giant tortoises in captivity may live for 200 years or more.
It lives up to twenty two years and in the wild it lives up to eight to ten years
Other than some fish and clams, tortoises and sea turtles are the higher lifeforms that live the longest, up to 200 years or possibly longer.
Turtles usually live for several decades, and can potentially outlive human beings. Sea turtles have even longer lifespans: they can live to be a few hundred years old. In fact, sea turtles are the longest-living animals on earth.
Turtles in captivity and the wild are very long living animals (the longest living animal in the world). In captivity TURTLES live around 10-30 years and TORTISES live up to 100 years in captivity.