This week’s Tanglewood Pet of the Week is full of slow-and-steady charm. Meet Cucumber, the red-footed tortoise, is anything but sluggish.

The Lonesome George room is in Puerto Ayora, the city where about 13,000 Galapagueños live. The Galápagos National Park ...

6 ABC proudly reports that those four Galapagos tortoise hatchlings — the first in the zoo’s history to be successfully hatched — were named Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia. And yes ...

Staff at Amazonia, a temperature controlled tropical indoor attraction within M&D’s Scotland’s Theme Park, received an Easter ...

Tucked away in the back of the Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo lies a shaded grassy area where 10 rescued gopher tortoises spend their days grazing and burrowing — unable to return to the wild but ...

Tortoise shells aren’t just tough armor ... to shut immediately with all holidays cancelled Pulmonoscorpius: The 3-Foot Scorpion of the Carboniferous Swamps Rich and poor alike gather for ...

Luckily, two slumbering desert tortoises survived thanks to the help of a longtime animal lover. Kenia Estrella has been working with animals since she was 17 years old. “I started with Los ...

A TORTOISE facing extinction in the wild has been hatched at Scots amusement park. The red-footed tortoise is being reared by staff at Amazonia, within M&D's Scotland's Theme Park, Motherwell ...

Minnesota announced the addition of 6-foot-10, Central Arkansas transfer Nehemiah Turner earlier this week, but they seem to remain interested in adding some depth to their frontcourt. If he ...

Staff at Amazonia, located within M&D's Scotland's Theme Park, received an adorable Easter treat, with the first-ever hatching of a red footed tortoise. The species, which is native to rainforests ...