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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 ...

A rare and endangered two-headed turtle with four front legs has left experts baffled. The African spurred tortoise, known as Centrochelys sulcata, is predicted to live a long, healthy life - despite ...

But these two Hermann's tortoises are twins, which hatched together from the same egg. Nicknamed Arnie and Danny – after the stars of the 1988 film Twins, which stared Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Jonathan the giant tortoise was born, Queen Victoria was just a teenager. While the British monarch died more than 120 years ago aged 81, Jonathan is still shuffling around planet Earth. Perhaps ...