According to Pct. 4 Constable Mark Herman, Sgt. Martinez responded to a neighborhood off Gosling Road near West Rayford Road ...

"All tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises," Sydnee Fenn, a reptile keeper at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, ...

Emma, a 66-pound Sulcata tortoise from Indiana, is finally back in her shell-ter after a hair-raising adventure walking along ...

A San Bernardino man is calling on the public to help locate his tortoise, who has been missing for nearly a week.

Stark County sheriff's deputies caught an unusual escapee on Aug. 26: an adult Sulcata tortoise that was traveling down 31st ...

A tortoise thought to be extinct for 113 years has been rediscovered on a remote volcanic island in the Galapagos. The amazing reptile find was made earlier this week during an Animal Planet ...

Take a look at these nine baby Galápagos tortoises. The Zoo is proud that the critically endangered species is now thriving.

Photograph by George Grall, Nat Geo Image Collection One easy way to tell a tortoise from a turtle is to look at its feet, which are “designed for trucking around on land,” says Madrak.

After 57 years of providing piggyback rides and being in hundreds of thousands of pictures at Reptile Gardens in Rapid City, the 500-pound tortoise Methuselah died Sunday at the age of 130. Those ...

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 ...