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Feeding turtles and tortoises right means mimicking their natural diet; the wrong foods, even common ones, can be harmful.

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Like many threatened land turtle species, the spur-thighed tortoise had no complete genome. For the first time, researchers have successfully sequenced the genome of the spur-thighed tortoise ...

The baby African pancake tortoise's birth was announced on June 10. The zoo then turned to TODAY.com readers to select the ...

Turtles could hold the key to finding a cure for cancer, researchers have found. Creatures that are both large and long-lived ...

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Yet despite its vulnerability, the gopher tortoise is considered a keystone species; its burrows — both active and abandoned — serve as homes for up to 350 other species of animals. Their diet and ...