Why do tortoise live so much longer than other reptiles that may be related to them?

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Why do tortoise live so much longer than other reptiles that may be related to them?

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We don’t know. All we know for sure is their organs seem to age much more slowly than those of pretty much anything else. But why they do and how it happens is just not currently known to us. Its the subject of ongoing research though, so hopefully we’ll have answers sooner or later.

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