Betty White spent the winter hiding from the authorities. The roughly 20-year-old female Russian tortoise (Testudo ...

Conservationists are seething over the high likelihood that a critical habitat for desert tortoises will be impacted by a ...

The fossils were found in a cave with an underwater stream, where they were simply picked up from the streambed.

A pet tortoise named George ruptured a utility line and caused a gas leak south of Fruita on Thursday night, before being returned to its owner unharmed.

Enjoy this KS1 story for 5-7 year olds. The speedy hare challenges the tortoise to a race in Aesop's well-known fable.

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 ...

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 ...

"We didn’t think he was going to survive the winter being out there for the first time," the reptile's owner said Getty After 9 months of searching, a missing pet tortoise has been found a mile from ...

SPRINGFIELD, Pa. (CBS) — It was an emotional day at Scenic Hills Elementary School in Springfield as a beloved tortoise was removed from his home. Shelly the African spurred tortoise has lived at the ...