A runaway tortoise has been reunited with her owners, three and a half years after going missing. The sulcata tortoise was found wandering around Putnam County, Florida, on Saturday afternoon and was ...

Aldabra tortoises are one of the world’s largest land tortoises, weighing up to 550 pounds. Males are larger than females and have longer, thicker tails. Males can weigh up to 550 pounds and their ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...

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

The Observer could not be in a “more positive position” to head into its first full year of ownership by Tortoise, according ...

The tortoise looked like Freddy Krueger before his new shell. — -- A tortoise has a second chance in life after a team of designers in Brazil custom-made a shell for the reptile, which was badly ...

The tortoise, dubbed "lucky" has been reunited with her owner after seven years A tortoise with a distinctive burned shell has been reunited with her owner after being missing for seven years. Mandy ...

Normally, tortoises are pictured as moving really slowly, but one backyard pet in the suburbs left that idea in the dust. After an adventure outside his yard, the escape artist named "Flip-Flop" is ...

Gramma, a Galápagos tortoise whose life at the San Diego Zoo spanned more than 20 presidents, two world wars and two pandemics, has died. Believed to be 141 years old, the tortoise whom the zoo ...

Vastu tips for live tortoise at home: People do many astrological remedies to improve the Vastu dosh of their home or offices and also try out various ways in which they can earn more money or bring ...

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