This is the month for apple blossom, tulips and, hopefully, some warm spring sunshine. And for a small but dedicated band of animal lovers there’s another reason to love April: their tortoises will ...
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A Las Vegas nonprofit wants to stop the backyard breeding of tortoises. Tortoise Group Board Chair, Laura Deitsch, says right now there are about 150,000 pet tortoises in the ...
The owner of a tortoise is appealing for help to find the animal after it went missing. The 25-year-old, named Bonnie, disappeared from its pen on Grove Road in Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire, on Tuesday ...
PHOENIX — The Arizona Game and Fish Department has about 260 Sonoran desert tortoises looking for forever homes. “That’s a lot. It’s the most we’ve had at one time, for sure,” said Tegan Wolf, AZGFD's ...
Gramma, the beloved Galápagos tortoise and the San Diego Zoo’s oldest resident, has died at an estimated age of 141. Known ...
A Jacksonville woman's quarter-sized tortoise grew into something unexpected: a conservation movement. Now she's using her ...
Two gopher tortoises were spray painted with bright colors in Naples, Florida, causing a local conservancy to rush to their aid Conservancy of Southwest Florida An act of vandalism could have a ...
FILE - A gopher tortoise ambles along a tee box on Sept. 21, 2014 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, that the burrowing reptiles don't need ...
The Denver Zoo has a new arrival and wants your help choosing a name! The zoo announced on June 10 that it welcomed a baby African pancake tortoise to its facility. The female reptile is the first of ...