Question No. 1: Are you a turtle, or a tortoise?? ;P
I've always identified more with turtles. For a long time when I was younger Chelonia Mydas (green sea turtle) was my favourite but then I started leaning more towards D. Coriacea. Honourable mention also to Chelodina Longicollis (eastern long neck turtle) for being the long time favourite inland turtle. One sign of my blatant favouritism is that I don't know the scientific names of any tortoises (shocking, I know).
(You may have been referring to CB but you get this text block anyway
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Here's your bonus facts:
-an ancient predecessor of modern tortoises was very, very similar in many respects EXCEPT that it had teeth rather than crushing plates in its mouth. (Modern testudines may have an egg tooth but that's it)
-in an controlled experiment eggs of the Murray Darling river turtle were monitored and it was found that the embryos were changing the rate of their own development in order to synchronise with each other. So two cool things from that:1. They can control their own rate of development 2. They were somehow (the researcher speculated it might have been odour based) communicating with eachother before even hatching