The Small Tortoiseshell is one of our most common and widespread butterflies. The pattern of creamy-yellows, foxy-oranges, ...

As summer approaches, more turtles and tortoises are coming out of their shell and becoming more active. Our Sally Hernandez and Tom Miller met with Brenda Bush with Central Texas Tortoise Rescue - ...

The Lonesome George room is in Puerto Ayora, the city where about 13,000 Galapagueños live. The Galápagos National Park ...

Tortoise shells aren’t just tough armor—they’re living parts of the tortoise’s skeleton, loaded with secrets of survival, evolution, and biological genius that scientists are still trying ...

Following the viral arrival of the four critically-endangered tortoise hatchlings earlier this year, the zoo has just ...

Three new Galapagos tortoise babies join their four sisters, who hatched earlier this year and were named after the "Golden ...

A Pennsylvania State Police trooper came across quite the surprising animal trying to cross the road in Montgomery County and ...

Thomas, the 200-pound tortoise, recently visited the Rotary Club of St. Francisville and Bains Lower Elementary School, ...

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said the National Recovery and Conservation Action Plan (2025-2035) is designed to protect the pancake tortoise, or Malacochersus tornieri, which is endemic to arid ...

The Camilla clutch is perhaps the one that feels most like summer. Made from abaca, a kind of hemp, it’s inspired by a horse ...

This week’s Tanglewood Pet of the Week is full of slow-and-steady charm. Meet Cucumber, the red-footed tortoise, is anything but sluggish.

the zoo has accumulated six male tortoises and four females. Master Shredder, a 25-year-old zoo resident, was found with multiple fractures in his shell. Screws were inserted into the protective ...