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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was usually no big deal for Andy and Susan Lechner’s pet tortoise, Lance, to graze in their big backyard. But during the Lombard couple’s barbecue Sunday night, their beloved pet apparently got ...

The tortoise looked like Freddy Krueger before his new shell. — -- A tortoise has a second chance in life after a team of designers in Brazil custom-made a shell for the reptile, which was badly ...