With its intricate, patterned shell, the near-threatened Karoo tent tortoise is a unique and hard-to-find resident of South ...

With no humans or large carnivores to contend with, giant tortoises with shells measuring over a metre long would have roamed the islands alongside other species around a tenth of their size. Although ...

Hingeback tortoises are perhaps the most carnivorous of all known tortoise species. The Homes’s hingeback tortoise is unfortunately listed as critically endangered, much more endangered than any ...

In all, the Turner Endangered Species Fund and its partners have been able to grow the population from 30 tortoises to about 800, said Chris Wiese, who leads the project at the Armendaris Ranch.

A Galapagos tortoise named Goliath celebrated his 135th birthday on Father's Day. But reaching an impressive age isn't the ...

In all, the Turner Endangered Species Fund and its partners have been able to grow the population from 30 tortoises to about 800, said Chris Wiese, who leads the project at the Armendaris Ranch.

Yet despite its vulnerability, the gopher tortoise is considered a keystone species; its burrows — both active and abandoned ...

Across the board, all types of turtles showed high longevity and extremely low aging rates. That doesn’t necessarily clash with the high aging rates that Colchero and da Silva found in two speci ...