Around 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, Lisa Seger, co-owner of Blue Heron Farm and Beer Garden in rural Waller County, Texas, walked outside to check on her 90-pound, 30-year-old tortoise, Jeremy. But as ...

Big Boy the tortoise has been known to wander from time to time according to his owners, but this time is different. Woodrome and her partner have been raising Big Boy for five years. He's a ...

Galapagos Tortoises are among the most iconic animals in the world. Extremely rare, they exist naturally only on the Galapagos Islands, a province of Ecuador. Of the original 15 species of giant ...

What is the Aldabra giant tortoise and why is it important? The Aldabra giant is the second-largest species of land tortoise in the world, after the Galapagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra). It ...

In response to the post, residents cracked jokes about officers capturing the lumbering beast. "I'm guessing it was a low speed pursuit!" one wrote. "Didn't know those big tortoises could be escape ...

Tortoise Gets Stuck Under the Table and Unknowingly Drags Dinner Away From the Family originally appeared on PetHelpful. Sometimes pets don’t realize just how big they are and end up wedged in the ...

One of Southwest Florida's most beloved reptiles is finally getting celebrated the way it always deserved to be. Gopher Tortoise Day is April 10, with the goal of raising awareness for the threatened ...

The tortoise’s life cycle is much like a human’s: They don’t begin reproducing until their mid-teens, and they live 50 to 100 years. This can make it hard to convince the public that the animals are ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...