There’s a good chance the adorable kitten in this video would pass on Aladdin’s magic carpet, because he already has a strange but comfy and reliable mode of transport. "My kittens get on Turtle the ...

Dog is first in United States trained to find gopher tortoises and burrows. Goal is to protect gopher tortoises from development. Gopher tortoise burrows provide food and habitat for about 365 species ...

After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galápagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died. Gramma was born ...

A baby sulcata tortoise is safely back at Ethan’s Exotic Pets & Aquatics in Greenwood after police recovered him from what may be the most unpredictable two-day crime spree Greenwood has seen in a ...

As far as animal prints are concerned, tortoiseshell is the most unassuming. Whether it's infused into the frame of your eyeglasses or a lucite hoop earring, the blurred black-and-caramel pattern is ...

Racing Bulls are rolling into Austin for the United States Grand Prix this weekend wearing a livery that’s as bold as it is unexpected: a gleaming, gold-trimmed tortoise shell. The Faenza-based outfit ...

Attention reptile-lovers, what do you call an animal that lives in a shell made of bone and keratin, shuffles along at a slow pace and lives on land? Any guesses? You may have off-handedly answered ...

U.S. Air Force researchers on Sept. 22 revealed plans to fire an affordable hypersonic missile in early December under the newly unveiled Angry Tortoise project. The project integrates the liquid-fuel ...