Meet Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise who, at an estimated 192 to 193 years old in 2025, is officially the world’s oldest living land animal. Remarkably, he may be even older than documented, ...

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 ...

A giant tortoise species thought to be extinct has been found living on the Galapagos island of Fernandina. The discovery marks the first time researchers have located a Fernandina Island tortoise ...

But it’s hard to blame the dangerous dawdler: a giant tortoise. Stitch, a sulcata tortoise, had escaped from a nearby attraction. He wandered three miles before a driver called police to report ...

Arizona state troopers rescued Stitch, the giant sulcata tortoise, from an interstate highway after it escaped from its enclosure at a ranch. By Sara Ruberg On an interstate highway between ...

Othello the Aldabra giant tortoise, who was well over 100 years old, died at the St. Louis Zoo on April 8. Screengrab from St. Louis Zoo Facebook page. Zookeepers and guests are mourning a beloved ...

A giant tortoise brought trains to a halt when it was found on a railway track. The injured animal was spotted near Harling Road, north east of Thetford, Norfolk, on the Cambridge-bound line at ...

He was a centenarian Aldabra giant tortoise. Othello and Ray, another Aldabra giant tortoise still living at the Zoo, arrived in the U.S. as mature adults in 1938. Both were brought to the Saint ...