AHB Series 22 - Galapagos Giant Tortoise – Chelonoidis nigra

Animal Heavenly Body · A Series of Laugh and Grow

Series 22 · The Tortoise & Snapping Turtle Collection

Galapagos Giant Tortoise

Chelonoidis nigra

The hidden treasure of Series 22 — the Galápagos Giant Tortoise, the largest living tortoise and one of the longest-lived animals on Earth, immortalized by Darwin’s islands.

HIDDEN · A GENTLE GIANT · the Galápagos giant

RangeGalápagos Islands

HabitatIsland highlands & lowlands

Shell LengthUp to 5 ft (1.5 m)

RankThe largest living tortoise

LifespanOver 150 years

StatusHidden chase figure

A Series of Laugh and Grow

Real animals, reimagined plump and cheerful — painted in lifelike detail, sculpted impossibly cute.

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Chubby & Full of Character

Rounded, soft and undeniably cute — yet every scale, wrinkle and marking is hand-painted true to the real animal. The reaction it gets in person is always the same: so detailed, and so adorable.

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Ready to Display

A single, sturdy hand-painted piece — no assembly, no fuss. Set it on a desk or shelf and it holds its happy pose, ready to collect and show off.

Series 22 hides its greatest giant for last. The Galápagos giant tortoise is the largest tortoise alive and among the longest-lived of all animals — a gentle, dome-shelled colossus whose island-by-island differences once helped a young naturalist named Darwin change how we understand life itself.

The Largest Tortoise Alive

Reaching five feet of shell and well over 400 kilograms (900 lb), the Galápagos giant tortoise is the biggest living tortoise on Earth — a true colossus, here shrunk to the palm of your hand.

Older Than Anyone

Among the longest-lived animals on the planet, these tortoises can pass 150 years — some individuals alive today hatched back in the 1800s, older than any person who will ever meet them.

Darwin’s Muse

Their shells differ from island to island — high ‘saddlebacks’ on dry islands, rounded domes on lush ones — a pattern that helped inspire Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection.

The Collector’s Reward

As the secret chase of the series — and a symbol of conservation ever since Lonesome George — the giant tortoise is the piece keepers hunt for, a gentle ancient colossus to crown the set.

“The largest tortoise alive, old enough to have watched history go by.”

Craft & Specifications

Series	A Series of Laugh and Grow (Series 22) — The Tortoise & Snapping Turtle Collection, by Animal Heavenly Body
Approx. Size	Approx. palm-sized · ~0.5 lb (230 g)
Material	Hand-painted resin
Display	Single fixed figure — ready to display out of the box
SKU	AHB-V22-Hidden-TUR