The Philadelphia Zoo welcomed four new Western Santa Cruz tortoises, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise. What makes these ...

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...

Who knew a tortoise could feel through its shell? Find out why most of what we think we know about tortoise shells is ...

Park rangers say at least 84 gopher tortoises are now living at Fort de Soto Park near St. Petersburg. Prior to Hurricane ...

The Desert Tortoise Adoption Program at the Arizona Game and Fish Department is seeking homes for over 100 desert tortoises.

Over 100 desert tortoises at the Arizona Game and Fish Department seek a home where they can happily crawl around and burrow ...

Even more remarkably, Mommy is the oldest first-time parent of her species, according to a press release from the zoo. Mommy ...

A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time ...

Something kind of amazing happened recently at the Philadelphia Zoo: A pair of critically endangered, almost 100-year-old ...

A pair of Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoises, who are estimated to be around a century old, have become parents for the ...

Othello the Aldabra giant tortoise, who was well over 100 years old, died at the St. Louis Zoo on April 8. Screengrab from St ...

Philadelphia Zoo’s vision is that these hatchlings will be a part of a thriving population of Galapagos tortoises in the ...