after the Galapagos tortoise and the Aldabra giant tortoise. Abigail Hardwick, animal officer at Tropical World, said the group were all settling in well. They have been named Tank, Scoop ...

However, he certainly was shocked to see giant tortoises so enormous that a person could ride atop them! These giant tortoises are some of the most iconic creatures in the Galapagos. The islands ...

In January, a rehabilitation center for critically endangered tortoises in southern Madagascar was severely impacted by heavy flooding caused by two cyclones. The rescue center hosts thousands of ...

Nampally lake in Hyderabad's Public Gardens is drying up, endangering its aquatic life, including tortoises introduced two months ago. Due to sewage contamination and summer heat, most fish have ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Pilar Del Rey, the character actress perhaps best remembered for her turn in Giant as the Mexican woman who has a seriously ill newborn who grows up to be the doomed ...

These UNESCO-listed isles host red-footed boobies, frigatebirds, Aldabra drongos and, most famously, the largest population of giant tortoises in the world. Its central lagoon, larger than Mahé ...

SINGAPORE – Sometimes, it pays to be slow. A reptile – which was labelled a tortoise in a social media post but which many netizens say is in fact a terrapin – that was trying to cross the ...