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

"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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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