Researchers have captured the moment when a lifelong vegetarian broke rank to eat meat -- and what made it all the more "horrifying" was that it was a tortoise. Scientists captured the moment on video ...

For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise ...

Othello and his buddy Ray, who is still living at the Saint Louis Zoo, arrived in the United States as mature adults in 1938 – a whopping 87 years ago. Experts they were at least “several decades” old ...

In December 2004, the Kenyan coast was hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami. Amid the chaos, rescuers spotted a tiny hippo calf ...

An Arizona driver recently called 911 about a fellow traveler going slow enough along Interstate 10 that it was an emergency. But it’s hard to blame the dangerous dawdler: a giant tortoise. Stitch, a ...

Giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Madagascar 600 years after their disappearance from the wild, Animals Around the Globe reported. The decision is expected to have major ecological benefits, ...

Think Four Seasons and maybe you picture the baby meme (”Who wants to go to the Four Seasons Florida?”). Or perhaps your mind goes to some salacious scenes unfolding in The White Lotus, as the hotels ...

Researchers have captured the moment when a livelong vegetarian broke rank to eat meat -- and what made it all the more "horrifying" was that it was a tortoise. Scientists captured the moment on video ...

(WPHL) — For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise family. The zoo officially debuted four critically endangered ...

ST. LOUIS (Gray News) – The Saint Louis Zoo is mourning the death of one of its oldest residents – an Aldabra giant tortoise that was well over 100 years old. The zoo said the tortoise named Othello ...