Police have arrested a man suspected of stealing a beloved pet from the family’s own yard in broad daylight. The pet, a rescued tortoise who has been with its family for about five years, is ...

3, 2024. (Family photo) Jennifer Tapia, also an owner of the tortoise, says that she and her family keep their tortoises outside regularly. They went to look for her on Sunday afternoon ...

So while the Mojave National Preserve recently marked its 30th birthday, many of the tortoises inhabiting the area were already well into middle age when the National Park Service began managing ...

ZTNS also celebrated the hatching of 16 Sulcata tortoise (Geochelone sulcata) hatchlings, marking a significant success for the species’ breeding efforts at ZTNS.

Ecuador has launched an investigation into the killing of four Galapagos giant tortoises, which prosecutors fear were hunted and eaten. Remains of the reptiles were found in a national park on ...

Genetic tests have confirmed that a giant tortoise found on the Galápagos Islands is from a species which scientists thought had died out more than a century ago. The single female was discovered ...