On a hot February morning, Galápagos National Park rangers released 50 giant tortoises back to Floreana Island—marking the ...

Around 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, Lisa Seger, co-owner of Blue Heron Farm and Beer Garden in rural Waller County, Texas, walked outside to check on her 90-pound, 30-year-old tortoise, Jeremy. But as ...

In response to the post, residents cracked jokes about officers capturing the lumbering beast. "I'm guessing it was a low speed pursuit!" one wrote. "Didn't know those big tortoises could be escape ...

Galapagos Tortoises are among the most iconic animals in the world. Extremely rare, they exist naturally only on the Galapagos Islands, a province of Ecuador. Of the original 15 species of giant ...

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One of Southwest Florida's most beloved reptiles is finally getting celebrated the way it always deserved to be. Gopher Tortoise Day is April 10, with the goal of raising awareness for the threatened ...

Andrinajoro R. Rakotoarivelo was funded by South Africa's National Research Foundation (NRF) through The Risk and Vulnerability Science Centre (RVSC) at UFS. Colleen Seymour, Grant Joseph, and Miguel ...