‘Turtles never die of old age’ – true or false?

By Kay Muddiman
Updated September 12 2016 - 3:23pm, first published 11:15am

Unlike humans, being ‘’negligibly senescent’’, turtles do not continue to age once their bodies reach maturity. In theory, they might be able to live forever, though in practice this would never happen.

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