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 ...

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 ...

The giant tortoise clumsily stalked and ate a lesser noddy tern chick, raising questions about their herbivorous diet. kachi via Pixabay A recent event has scientists wondering if giant tortoises are ...

Researchers filmed a giant tortoise stalking and killing a baby tern on an island in the Seychelles. The video is the first direct evidence of tortoises hunting. See more stories on Insider's business ...

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 ...

A predator doesn’t need to have the quickest speed or reflexes to catch a bird. In a paper publishing August 23 in the journal Current Biology, researchers report the first documented evidence of a ...