A tortoise who has enthralled and educated generations of visitors at the popular East Midlands family attraction where she ...

A tortoise has marked her 80th birthday in style by being given a lifetime achievement award from a Leicestershire attraction ...

The islands and atolls of the western Indian Ocean once teemed with giant tortoises that weighed as much as 600 pounds and ...

Galapagos tortoises are being threatened by an invasive tree species. Read how maintaining tortoise highways may be the best remedy.

No two Radiated Tortoises are alike—each shell tells its own story. In the heart of Madagascar’s Spiny Forest, a trio of Malagasy herpetologist ladies are rewilding these critically endangered ...

This threatened South Asian species has a star-shaped shell and employs its bright colours as camouflage in grasslands. This is South Africa's Little Namaqualand native and is the smallest tortoise in ...

Prolific Galapagos giant tortoise Diego is being released back into the wild after being credited by authorities with almost single handedly saving his species from extinction. The 100-year-old ...

Cape Town û At least 828 000 angulate tortoises were killed in January in bush fires that devastated 184 000ha of fynbos in the Western Cape, a study conducted by the Western Cape Nature Conservation ...

Their skin is thick and often patterned, aiding in camouflage. Despite their general similarity, tortoise species vary greatly in size, with some being small enough to fit in a hand and others ...