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 ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...

Sixteen critically endangered western Santa Cruz tortoises born to some very old parents got a slow walk and the red carpet treatment Wednesday at a Philadelphia Zoo event to show off the highly ...

A runaway tortoise has been reunited with her owners, three and a half years after going missing. The sulcata tortoise was found wandering around Putnam County, Florida, on Saturday afternoon and was ...

"He's got some injuries to overcome, but he's at least back in the arms of his family," said the Central Mississippi Turtle Rescue Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from ...