On a hot February morning, Galápagos National Park rangers released 50 giant tortoises back to Floreana Island—marking the ...

Around 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, Lisa Seger, co-owner of Blue Heron Farm and Beer Garden in rural Waller County, Texas, walked outside to check on her 90-pound, 30-year-old tortoise, Jeremy. But as ...

Galapagos Tortoises are among the most iconic animals in the world. Extremely rare, they exist naturally only on the Galapagos Islands, a province of Ecuador. Of the original 15 species of giant ...

In response to the post, residents cracked jokes about officers capturing the lumbering beast. "I'm guessing it was a low speed pursuit!" one wrote. "Didn't know those big tortoises could be escape ...

Andrinajoro R. Rakotoarivelo was funded by South Africa's National Research Foundation (NRF) through The Risk and Vulnerability Science Centre (RVSC) at UFS. Colleen Seymour, Grant Joseph, and Miguel ...

Animal Care Services recently reunited a massive tortoise found roaming the city with its family, according to a Facebook post from the department on Monday, March 18. The Sulcata Tortoise named Atlas ...

The tortoise’s life cycle is much like a human’s: They don’t begin reproducing until their mid-teens, and they live 50 to 100 years. This can make it hard to convince the public that the animals are ...