Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Lord Howe Island Group' has mentioned 'Tortoise' in the following places:
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[106] In this rock are fossils of bird bones and eggs, land and marine snails, and the extinct endemic horned turtle (Meiolania platyceps) now thought to be an ancient relictual nonswimming tortoise with relatives in South America. | WIKI |
During the Pleistocene the giant terrestrial tortoise Meiolania platyceps was endemic to the island, but this is currently thought to have gone extinct before human occupation as a result of postglacial sea-level rise. | WIKI |