A Winter Haven man has giant Galapagos tortoises in his back yard and thousands more turtles at a breeding facility in the city. Wayne Hill's breeder tortoises are about 29 years old He gave Spectrum ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – It was turtle trouble ...

A remarkable, bite-sized story hatched out Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, last week after two rare Western Hermann's tortoises were born conjoined and faced death if not for the intervention of an expert ...

Hunchy and four of his buddies are back in Estero. The white African spurred tortoise, and 17 of his tortoise and turtle pals, went missing recently from the home he shares with thousands of other ...

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...

In the following century, conservationists set out to restore the Galápagos giant tortoise on Española—and the island ecosystem. They began eradicating the introduced species, and capturing Española’s ...

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The sun is blazing down when I meet endangered Galápagos tortoises for the first time. They look like modern-day dinosaurs, lazily ambling around on scaly, dusty bowlegs. I proffer a carrot to the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. “The recent release of a group of captive-bred tortoises last month is a significant milestone, but it represents the culmination of over a decade ...