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

The tortoise, named Alagba ... Advanced ape skull find changes human origin ideas ...

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 ...

Less than a day after losing her childhood home to the Palisades fire, Caitlin Doran and Tiptoe the tortoise are determined ...

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 ...

Genetic tests have confirmed that a giant tortoise found on the Galápagos Islands is from a species which scientists thought had died out more than a century ago. The single female was discovered ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The first time a tortoise walked through my hut at Middle Camp on Aldabra Atoll, I was amazed. I grabbed my camera and ...

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, ...