A wildlife official handles a baby turtle that was found along with other turtles in a suitcase at the airport before they could be smuggled from the Galapagos Islands, in Santa Cruz, Galapagos ...

A "never before been observed" albino Galapagos giant tortoise made its first public debut at a Swiss zoo on Friday. Two tortoises, one black and the other albino, were born in early May at the ...

For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise family.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The Sonoran tortoise population has been growing a lot since the early 80s due to captive breeding, and now a lot of babies are up for adoption through the Arizona Game and Fish ...

The gopher tortoise hatchling likely walked through "freshly poured concrete" before a local wildlife center found it Tracey Harrington McCoy is a celebrity news writer at PEOPLE Digital. She has been ...

An ocean and thousands of miles separate Western Pennsylvania and Saharan Africa, but surprisingly, they share a resident — the sulcata tortoise. In recent years, sulcatas have crowded reptile rescues ...

Researchers have captured the moment when a lifelong vegetarian broke rank to eat meat -- and what made it all the more "horrifying" was that it was a tortoise. Scientists captured the moment on video ...