The Galapagos Tortoise is a giant tortoise, the world's largest tortoise or land turtle (see turtle or tortoise?), that lives on the Galapagos Islands. These are big guys with a big name. The name of the islands actually comes from the tortoises - Galapagos means saddle-back in Spanish, which is a description of the tortoise’s big shell. These are the islands of course where Charles Darwin partly developed the theory of evolution, certainly with the help and collaboration of the gentle giants. There are quite a few subspecies of the tortoise, one in particular is called the saddle-back and its shell has some ridges on top that make it look even more like a saddle than some of the others. This subspecies has the longest neck of all the species as well.
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