Hunchy and four of his buddies are back in Estero. The white African spurred tortoise, and 17 of his tortoise and turtle pals, went missing recently from the home he shares with thousands of other ...

A 90-year-old tortoise named Mr. Pickles welcomed three new hatchlings to the world at the Houston Zoo. Mr. Pickles, a critically endangered reptile from Madagascar, became a new father after a ...

The world’s oldest living land animal, Jonathan the Seychelles giant tortoise, celebrated his 191st birthday this week. With this new milestone, he also broke his own record as the oldest chelonian—a ...

Aldabra tortoises are one of the world’s largest land tortoises, weighing up to 550 pounds. Males are larger than females and have longer, thicker tails. Males can weigh up to 550 pounds and their ...

MIAMI – A Nevada man has been sentenced in South Florida to 120 days of home confinement and ordered to pay a $7,000 fine for trafficking an endangered Galapagos tortoise. Court records show that ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on science, health and technology. Pandora joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously worked as the Head ...

Jonathan hasn’t lost his mojo. The world’s oldest land mammal, a 190-year-old giant Seychelles tortoise named Jonathan, is still living a shell of a life down on the British isle of Saint Helena — a ...

A species of giant tortoise believed to have been extinct for more than 100 years has been discovered on the Galapagos island of Fernandina, according to Ecuador’s government. The last known time a ...

Diego the giant tortoise was part of the San Diego Zoo's breeding program. A Galapagos giant tortoise estimated to be about 130 years old is returning home after having so much sex that he saved his ...

After trudging upslope for weeks, a giant tortoise slows its hundreds of cumbersome kilograms to a stop. Dense woods defended by barbed wire–like blackberry bushes block its path. After a brief foray ...