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Harry Parkhill, Lincolnshire Liz Curnock Bonnie the tortoise needs specialist care to survive in colder months, her owner says The owner of a tortoise is appealing for help to find the animal after it went missing. The 25-year-old, named Bonnie, disappeared from its pen on Grove Road in Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire, on Tuesday. Owner Liz Curnock said she was …

Turtles and tortoises are both reptiles with shells, but they’re not exactly the same. So how can you tell them apart? What’s the difference between a turtle and a tortoise? “All tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises,” Sydnee Fenn, a reptile keeper at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, told Live Science. Generally, the reptiles that people call turtles …