The white tortoise is one of two Galápagos giant tortoises (Chelonoidis niger) that recently hatched at Tropiquarium, a zoo in Servion, Switzerland.The pair of eggs were laid by a 220-pound (100 ...

A beloved pet tortoise named Myrtle has been reunited with its family in Mississippi weeks after disappearing during a deadly ...

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...

The first of the four hatchlings, all female, began to emerge from its white, hard-shelled egg on Feb. 27, the zoo said. The four hatchlings are part of a clutch of 16 eggs Mommy laid back in November ...

After fleeing their home to escape a tornado, a Kokomo, Mississippi, family returned to find their beloved tortoise was ...

On the horizon directly in front of her burrow, about two miles offshore, Egmont Key’s historic lighthouse towered over ...

I don’t think Esmeralda minds.“ Esmeralda is one of many Aldabra tortoises living on Bird Island, a coral cay surrounded by white-sand beaches and can’t-quite-believe-it turquoise sea.

The Philadelphia Zoo’s Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises Mommy and Abrazzo, both estimated to be 100 years old, are the ...