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

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

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 ...

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

Critically endangered Galapagos tortoises Abrazzo and Mommy are parents of four hatchlings at Philadelphia Zoo ...

The birth of tortoises native to Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos increases their U.S. population from 44 to 48. A few ...

I’ve already dodged a couple of giant tortoises along the white sand path on my morning walk from the research station on Picard Island to the lagoon, but now I’m stopped in my tracks to admir ...

A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time parents. In an announcement Friday, the zoo said it is “overjoyed” at ...

A casualty of the Eaton fire was the destruction of the Eaton Canyon Nature Center in Pasadena, which lost 15 animals who died in their enclosures.

Indian Star Tortoises have been successfully released into the wild at Jogapur Reserve Forest in the Rajura Forest Range ...

The TRP was established to address the growing issue of turtles and tortoises being rescued from illegal wildlife trade and ...