Animal trackers using traditional skills helped to find and identify fossil tracks on the coast of South Africa.

"The art of tracking may well be the origin of science." This is the departure point for a 2013 book by Louis Liebenberg, co-founder of an organisation devoted to environmental monitoring.The ...

There was a Mauritian giant tortoise that went extinct ... In the tundra during the Pleistocene, there were bison and horses in North America, moose in Asia, woolly rhinos and all sorts of megafauna ...

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 ...

A zoo in Leeds has welcomed five giant tortoises after they outgrew their previous home. The group of sulcata tortoises, also known as African spurred tortoises, has moved from the Blue Planet ...

The group of sulcata tortoises became too big for their previous home at the Blue Planet Aquarium in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire A zoo in Leeds has welcomed five giant tortoises after they outgrew ...

The Late Pleistocene is not that far distant from the present (a mere 125,000 years ago), and many of the species that made tracks on the Cape South Coast then are still with us.

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 ...