Mojave desert tortoises wander across roads while searching for food, water and mates, putting them in the path of vehicles.

Bindi Irwin posted a sweet snap of her daughter, Grace, posing with a tortoise, whom Irwin revealed is one of Grace's "best ...

The Denver Zoo has a new arrival and asked for your help choosing a name. Now, the results are in. Meet Maple! The baby African pancake tortoise's birth was announced on June 10. The zoo then turned ...

Once fully trained, Echo will be the first dog in the United States that sniffs out gopher tortoises, according to Jones and ...

"We didn’t think he was going to survive the winter being out there for the first time," the reptile's owner said Getty After 9 months of searching, a missing pet tortoise has been found a mile from ...

A tortoise thought to be extinct for 113 years has been rediscovered on a remote volcanic island in the Galapagos. The amazing reptile find was made earlier this week during an Animal Planet ...

For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise ...

Famed Galápagos tortoise Lonesome George’s subspecies might not be extinct after all — researchers are calling the discovery of a surviving female relative “a story of hope” that the giant creature’s ...

Reporting from Barstow, Calif. — The sun was rising over the Mojave Desert as crews prepared to demonstrate a devastating new weapon in the war among man, bird and reptile. Standing on a windswept ...

The photograph of Jonathan is authentic. 1832 is his estimated birth year based on his size when he arrived on Saint Helena in 1882. What's Undetermined Although the estimate is widely accepted, ...