Cherry head red-footed tortoises are a smaller variant of the red-footed tortoise, with the red-footed tortoise and have similar care requirements. Although some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildlife Hospital and Conservation Center staff care for desert tortoise hatchlings Thursday at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens ...

As backyard-bred desert tortoises slowly pile up in the Las Vegas Valley, a local adoption group is looking north for a new place to unload the surplus reptiles. The Tortoise Group has expanded its ...

Birds do it, butterflies do it, and now, we know that Galapagos giant tortoises do it, too. Migration extends to animals around the world, but why the tortoises bother with this behavior remains a ...

JINING, China, Oct. 31 (UPI) --A pedestrian in China captured footage of a bizarre street fight between two tortoises featuring the larger reptile using its head. The video, recorded on a street in ...

WINDSOR — As wildlife releases go, it wasn’t a dramatic event. There weren’t any flapping wings or flippers churning through the crashing surf. Instead, after being placed in front of a burrow made ...

While tucked away in her South Florida burrow, Grumpy Gertrude is ready to ram anyone who approaches too closely—including the biologists who study her. The 14-year-old gopher tortoise is a favorite ...

A centenarian tortoise still begs for gentle head rubs, proving age doesn’t slow charm.

Desert tortoises — the iconic reptile of the Mojave Desert — face plenty of dangers in the wild that scientists say pose long-term threats to the species: ravens, humans and climate change, to name a ...