RJ Bigham details how he and his wife Jessica created a sanctuary for dozens of turtles and tortoises in Coker, Alabama.

Disturbing a desert tortoise in its native habitat is not only risky for the tortoise, it's illegal, state officials say.

Hidden in the tall grass was a tiny reptile, its shell marked with yellow star-like patterns - a clear sign it was a ...

Crush, a 55 pound African Spurred Tortoise, has gone missing. His Cape Coral owner has turned to social media to help find ...

Arizona troopers recently helped rescue an escaped sulcata tortoise that was attempting to cross Interstate 10 near Picacho, north of Tucson.

The pioneering study puts forward compelling evidence that red-footed tortoises (Chelonoidis carbonaria) experience long-term mood states, in a similar way to mammals and birds.

No two Radiated Tortoises are alike—each shell tells its own story. In the heart of Madagascar’s Spiny Forest, a trio of Malagasy herpetologist ladies are rewilding these critically endangered ...

This young tortoise posted by through.the.lleaves is the cutest thing ever. Fig, a little leopard tortoise, enjoys a good scratch on his bony bottom, wiggling back and forth to make sure his owner ...

‘Hope in a shell’: 100-year-old endangered tortoise becomes mother for the first time Incubation resulted in half the eggs being female and the other half male. So far, only female hatchlings ...

Meet some of the US Military's cuter shells - their desert tortoises. The creatures live in the Tortoise Research and Captive Rearing Site (TRACRS) at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC ...

Gopher tortoises share their burrows with more than 350 other species, and are therefore referred to as a keystone species. In Florida, the gopher tortoise is listed as threatened.