Bindi Irwin posted a sweet snap of her daughter, Grace, posing with a tortoise, whom Irwin revealed is one of Grace's "best ...

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

Mojave desert tortoises wander across roads while searching for food, water and mates, putting them in the path of vehicles.

A runaway tortoise has been reunited with her owners, three and a half years after going missing. The sulcata tortoise was found wandering around Putnam County, Florida, on Saturday afternoon and was ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...

The Denver Zoo has a new arrival and asked for your help choosing a name. Now, the results are in. Meet Maple! The baby African pancake tortoise's birth was announced on June 10. The zoo then turned ...

Tortoise Capital Advisors, L.L.C. (Tortoise Capital), a fund manager focused on energy and infrastructure investing, is today unveiling the newest addition to its growing lineup of Exchange Traded ...

"We didn’t think he was going to survive the winter being out there for the first time," the reptile's owner said Getty After 9 months of searching, a missing pet tortoise has been found a mile from ...

Aldabra tortoises are one of the world’s largest land tortoises, weighing up to 550 pounds. Males are larger than females and have longer, thicker tails. Males can weigh up to 550 pounds and their ...

Once fully trained, Echo will be the first dog in the United States that sniffs out gopher tortoises, according to Jones and ...

The photograph of Jonathan is authentic. 1832 is his estimated birth year based on his size when he arrived on Saint Helena in 1882. What's Undetermined Although the estimate is widely accepted, ...

Famed Galápagos tortoise Lonesome George’s subspecies might not be extinct after all — researchers are calling the discovery of a surviving female relative “a story of hope” that the giant creature’s ...