The pampered turtles were born in a series of hatches this year to Mommy and Abrazzo, a couple that is estimated to both be ...

The Philadelphia Zoo just welcomed a new generation of slow-moving royalty — and gave them the red carpet treatment. Sixteen ...

The funeral was about to begin. The casket was closed. “I just don’t want the kids to see her,” librarian Colleen Boyd said. Early this spring, the small-town library where she’s the sole employee ...

After becoming a first-time mom earlier this year, she and her mate Abrazzo have added nine more hatchlings to their brood.

A mind-bending optical illusion is challenging internet users. A tortoise is perfectly camouflaged within a striped carpet.

A set of 16 critically endangered western Santa Cruz tortoises was born to two century-old parents at the Philadelphia Zoo ...

The wildlife service decides the Sonoran desert tortoise isn't a threatened or endangered species, but finds a wide range of threats to the animals and their habitat.

The tortoise - which Sussex Police did not name - was described by officers as being about 6in (15cm) across and weighing around 6.5lbs (3kg). Its owner is "worried sick about what is happening to ...