Located at the San Diego Zoo, Gramma, the resident tortoise, was born in the Galapagos Islands around 1884. Those at the zoo ...

Deep in the coastal woods of South Carolina, behind high fences, guard dogs, and security cameras, is a group of people who ...

GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS, Ecuador — Editor's Note: The pictured tortoise above is not the one discovered in the Galapagos. A giant tortoise found in 2019 on the Galapagos island of Fernandina is said to be ...

Most people have a turtle story. Perhaps they watched one glide through an aquarium tank as a child, helped one cross a busy road, or have spotted one in the wild and stopped to admire its determined ...

Scientists say a tortoise discovered in 2019 on the Galapagos Islands belongs to a species considered extinct more than 100 years ago. The single female tortoise belongs to the species Chelonoidis ...

Turtles and tortoises, members of the order Testudines, have endured ice ages, continental shifts, and even the extinction of dinosaurs, embodying resilience and longevity. Yet, a recent global ...

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

With the Northern Corridor Highway approved in Southern Utah, some of Utah's slower and smaller residents could be affected: ...