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A gopher tortoise walks toward the camera along a gravelly road with one front leg and one hind leg in the air. The scales on its legs are in sharp detail, while the immediate foreground and background are blurry.

Tortoise Takes a Leisurely Stroll

Slow and steady wins the race for this gopher tortoise, ambling along the Launch Pad 39B beach road on NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Gopher tortoises are dry-land turtles that live in scrub, dry hammock, pine flatwood, coastal grassland and dune habitats.

Image Credit: NASA/Daniel Casper

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