Learn more about turtles and tortoises at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and sea turtles at the Smithsonian's Ocean Portal. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Textile Design: Turtle Motif ...

Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene. In the early years of the 20th century, they still thrived within the Southwest's arid ...

Rocky, a 100-pound tortoise, is not actually the first Los Angeles tortoise to be reunited with his family amid the fires San Dimas Sheriff's Station/Instagram Rocky's home! Amid the devastation ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for ...