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

Field workers in the Mojave Desert looking for threatened tortoises often find human remains. How did the area become a land of cold cases?

Only when you compare a Galapagos tortoise to a crouching human do you begin to realize how enormous these reptiles really are. Kevin Schafer / Getty Images The Galapagos tortoise is one of the ...

An animal expert told Newsweek it was "certainly possible" for cats to coexist with reptiles, albeit with proper supervision.

Millions of dollars are now coming to Nevada to add wildlife crossings for the federally threatened Mojave desert tortoise.

Unfortunately, tortoises like to build their homes in the same sandy spots where developers love to build things too. This is why they’re constantly winding up in the way of new subdivisions, stores, ...

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 ...

Characteristics such as delayed sexual maturity, dependence on high adult survival rates and high levels of nest and hatchling mortality make gopher tortoises especially vulnerable to human-driven ...