Jackie Tliemat is a PhD student at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi studying diseases in Texas Tortoises May 23, 2024 is World Turtle Day Texas Tortoises are a threatened species and people often ...

Through the careful study of modern and early fossil tortoise, researchers now have a better understanding of how tortoises breathe and the evolutionary processes that helped shape their unique ...

A two-headed tortoise in Switzerland is celebrating his 25th birthday on Saturday. Janus, a Greek tortoise named after the two-headed Roman god, hatched at the Geneva Natural History Museum in 1997 — ...

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

Hares of Oakland, be forewarned: The world's fastest tortoise has screeched into town. The newest residents at the Oakland Zoo are a trio of the swiftest - and oddest - tortoises in the world. The ...

A unique chemical extracted from the blood of Central Asian tortoises can be used to treat radiation sickness, Uzbek scientists told United Press International. The preparation called TT2 is made up ...