For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise ...

Desert tortoises — the iconic reptile of the Mojave Desert — face plenty of dangers in the wild that scientists say pose long-term threats to the species: ravens, humans and climate change, to name a ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The Sonoran tortoise population has been growing a lot since the early 80s due to captive breeding, and now a lot of babies are up for adoption through the Arizona Game and Fish ...

A wildlife official handles a baby turtle that was found along with other turtles in a suitcase at the airport before they could be smuggled from the Galapagos Islands, in Santa Cruz, Galapagos ...

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The gopher tortoise hatchling likely walked through "freshly poured concrete" before a local wildlife center found it Tracey Harrington McCoy is a celebrity news writer at PEOPLE Digital. She has been ...

Researchers have captured the moment when a lifelong vegetarian broke rank to eat meat -- and what made it all the more "horrifying" was that it was a tortoise. Scientists captured the moment on video ...

An ocean and thousands of miles separate Western Pennsylvania and Saharan Africa, but surprisingly, they share a resident — the sulcata tortoise. In recent years, sulcatas have crowded reptile rescues ...

An ocean and thousands of miles separate Western Pennsylvania and Saharan Africa, but surprisingly, they share a resident — the sulcata tortoise. In recent years, sulcatas have crowded reptile rescues ...

An unlikely friendship between an orange cat and a pet tortoise has warmed hearts among internet users after their owner shared their story in a viral TikTok video. Juno and Woody have been ...