Galápagos giant tortoises are known for reaching impressive sizes. One such reptile's massive measurements blew even his ...

Rocky, a 100-pound tortoise, reunited with his family after they were forced to evacuate their Altadena home because of the Los Angeles wildfires.

Water turtles require more extensive care and are recommended to be kept outdoors to help duplicate it's natural environment, ...

Caitlin Doran/Instagram; Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Less than a day after losing her childhood home to the Palisades fire, Caitlin Doran and Tiptoe the tortoise are determined to make the ...

People often use the words turtle and tortoise interchangeably, but these reptiles have distinct differences: Turtle shells are typically more flattened and not as deeply domed as tortoise shells, but ...

While tortoises across their range continue to lose their homes and lives in the wake of human development, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has relegated the eastern population of gopher tortoises ...

‘See,’ said the Hare. ‘You’re all too scared to even try.’ ‘I’ll have a go,’ said the Tortoise. The Hare laughed. ‘You? The slowest creature in the whole world? I’m not wasting ...

It's a happy ending for Huckleberry. The tortoise was one of the first animals rescued by Pasadena Humane after the Los ...

Turtles and tortoises occur frequently in religious cultural ... to cope with the large demographic and economic challenges human society faced in the Upper Paleolithic.” As the boulder which ...