Tortoise shells aren’t just tough armor—they’re living parts of the tortoise’s skeleton, loaded with secrets of survival, ...

Who knew a tortoise could feel through its shell? Find out why most of what we think we know about tortoise shells is ...

repair cracked shells and nurse back to health the roughly 4,000 animals that are brought into the non-profit facility each year. Whether it’s a gopher tortoise that has been hit by a car or an ...

In a remarkable twist of fate, a leopard tortoise has been rescued from the clutches of a sangoma (traditional healer) in ...

And here’s one we really didn’t expect; a replacement shell for a tortoise! At a public education program for the rescue, [Novelli] made an offhand comment about how cool it would be to 3D ...

People often use the words turtle and tortoise interchangeably, but these reptiles have distinct differences: Turtle shells are typically more flattened and not as deeply domed as tortoise shells, but ...