In October, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at California’s Otay Mesa border crossing noticed an odd bulge inside a man’s pants. Jesse Agus Martinez, a U.S. citizen who lives in Tijuana, ...

After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galapagos tortoise ...

After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galápagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died.

Tortoises can live for more than 100 years in the wild and close to double that in captivity. This tortoise was born in her native habitat likely in the 1880s.

Sargassum seaweed is creating major new obstacles for sea turtle hatchlings, drastically slowing their crawl to the ocean and ...

As noted by Johns Hopkins, caring for an animal can reduce stress, increase physical activity, decrease loneliness, and ...

Loggerhead hatchlings travel thousands of miles guided by an astonishing built-in navigation system that uses the Earth’s magnetic field. Scientists trained young turtles to “dance” in response to ...

Turtles are probably the poster children of bad pet decisions. Back in the day, baby turtles were available in department ...

A baby sulcata tortoise is safely back at Ethan’s Exotic Pets & Aquatics in Greenwood after police recovered him from what ...

Olive ridley turtle populations appear to have rebounded in India after years of patchwork efforts to stem their decline. Can it last?

Meet a brave turtle who turns tide to save her brother, dive into a brilliant new series of quick and easy thrillers for ...

On Oct. 23, Calvin University welcomed 11 baby spotted turtles from John Ball Zoo as a part of a program aimed to strengthen ...