When fire destroyed the Eaton Canyon Nature Center and its trails, it also killed 25 of the facility's animal ambassadors, ...

Two adults, three dogs and a tortoise have been displaced after a house fire in the River Walk section of Chesapeake on ...

Tucked away in the back of the Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo, 10 rescued gopher tortoises spend their days grazing and ...

Mojave Max, the desert tortoise who serves as a mascot for the Clark County Desert Conservation Program, has not yet emerged ...

Now that we're in the month of May and have seen temperatures consistently in the upper 80s—many locals are asking "where is our famous spring-predicting desert tortoise Mojave Max?" ...

The animal was found walking down a street and was taken to a pet shop, Little Beasties, where staff helped to find the owner ...

The Philadelphia Zoo's four new female tortoise hatchlings have been named. Votes for the names topped 13,000. They are named ...

George Orwell once described The Observer as “the enemy of nonsense” and this quote appears at the top of page two of the new-look edition. The first Observer under Tortoise had an image-led ...

The four critically endangered Galapagos Tortoise hatchlings that were born at the end of February have now officially been ...

A viral social media post is raising questions about why a prescribed burn happened during drought conditions.