A runaway tortoise has been reunited with her owners, three and a half years after going missing. The sulcata tortoise was found wandering around Putnam County, Florida, on Saturday afternoon and was ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...

For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise family.

The California zoo invited fans of the late Galápagos tortoise to enjoy one of her favorite snacks, a "generous, fruit-filled salad," in her honor San Diego Zoo/I/nstagram Gramma, the Galápagos ...

Gramma, a Galápagos tortoise whose life at the San Diego Zoo spanned more than 20 presidents, two world wars and two pandemics, has died. Believed to be 141 years old, the tortoise whom the zoo ...

Sergio Candido is the managing editor for the South region at cbsnews.com, coordinating multiplatform news coverage for CBS Miami, CBS Texas and CBS Atlanta. He previously worked for outlets including ...

It sounds like a fable or a fairy tale. The main characters are an orphaned baby hippopotamus and a 130-year-old giant tortoise. The hippo was rescued from a natural disaster of biblical proportions, ...

Vastu tips for live tortoise at home: People do many astrological remedies to improve the Vastu dosh of their home or offices and also try out various ways in which they can earn more money or bring ...

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