Across nearly a century and a half, a single Galápagos tortoise watched the world change around her, outlasting wars, cultural revolutions, and more than twenty occupants of the White House. Now ...

The world used to be full of giant tortoises, and the ones that live on the Seychelles and Galápagos islands are all we have left. But how did these big reptiles get to the islands in the first place?

It is important for all of us to get out and see the world. The same is true of our animal companions. Just take this adorable tortoise, for example. Oh, and this tortoise goes by the name of Tiptoe, ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Zoo is celebrating the mother tortoise and her babies that set a world record. The Western Santa Cruz Galapagos Tortoise made international headlines earlier ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for their lives ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galápagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has ...

Golem Grad, an uninhabited island in a country that once was part of Yugoslavia is crawling with about 1,000 Hermann’s tortoises — especially males.

Tortoises can be fast when they need to be!

What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...

It is difficult to watch. A sound-asleep tortoise is stuck in her home as it erupts into flames. Thanks to the fact that she kept her wits about her, this tortoise escaped an inferno. But everything ...