My favourite animal is turtle; they are reptiles charecterised by a special shell developed from their ribs that acts as a shield. The earliest known turtles date from 215 million years ago, making turtles one of the oldest reptile group and one of the oldest animals of today.
Like other reptiles, turtles are cold-blooded; it means that their internal temperature varies according to the ambient environment. Turtles generally lives in or around water, but also they spend time on earth.
The largest living turtle is the leatherback sea turtle, which reaches a shell lenght of 2 meters and can reach a weight of over 900 kg. In the other hand, the smallest turtle is the speckled padloper tortoise of South Africa. It measures no more than 8 cm. in lenght and weights about 140 grams.
Turtles are my favourite animal because they seem from another era; I think they look a lot like dinosaurs, and that makes them very special. Also, they are very slow, and I think that humans should learn from them and lower the speed with wich we live.
I think that I can have "average" turtles at home, but in no way one like the leatherback sea turtle!
A particular characteristic of turtles is that females lay their eggs on the same beach where they were born.

LONG LIVE FOR TURTLES AND SLOW TO HUMANS LIFE!!