Heir armour-like shell is reminiscent of times of brandishing warriors, yet they are much older. Turtles, like tortoises, have lived on Earth for more than 200 million years and are said to have evolved even before mammals, birds, crocodiles, snakes and lizards. Turtles stay in water and are often confused with tortoises that live on land. Over the years, turtles have developed teeth and have learned to retract their heads back into their shells, but that is as much as they have changed. Modern turtles are very similar to their original ancestors. In India, one can see hundreds of thousands of Olive Ridley turtles visit the beaches of Orissa, where they come to lay their eggs, a spectacle called Aribadda. Mothers then return to the sea and little hatchlings crawl out and instinctively move out towards the sea. Sadly though, thousands of ridleys are dying because of mining and rigging activities, which are being permitted too close to the coast.