Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable ...

The Mojave Desert tortoise has long been considered a threatened species, but in June, California declared it endangered.

A pair of Ohio police officers responded to a "unique call" and engaged in a very slow-speed chase involving an escaped ...

Barney, the tire-sized tortoise from Denison, loves people—and watermelon—but on Wednesday evening, he loved the thrill of ...

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In this video, I remove large ticks from my Galapagos tortoises. Venezuela deploying millions of militia after "outlandish ...

The Nels, who farm in the Nieuwoudtville district of the arid Karoo, blend farming with conservation to protect the speckled ...

Sheldon is a “sulcata tortoise,” or an African spurred tortoise. He was reported missing from Walker’s Farm, west of Crowley.

The Philadelphia Zoo is celebrating a big moment for an almost-extinct reptile species: the hatching of nine critically ...

They enthralled sailors. They inspired Darwin. Then, by the mid 19th-century, the iconic Floreana tortoise was gone. Here’s how a group of persistent scientists unlocked the secrets to bringing them ...