Cherlyn Flood, 15, left, and Patience Laycock, 9, inspect Thelma, one of two ambassador desert tortoises living aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., during the Colorado River Indian Tribes' tour of the Archeology and Paleontology Curation Center, Dec. 29, 2016. It was both girls' first time meeting a desert tortoise. "They're very heavy," Laycock observed. "They're cool," Flood added.

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