A woman in Belfast shared the process of placing her pet tortoise into the fridge for “hibernation time” in a viral TikTok ...

Across nearly a century and a half, a single Galápagos tortoise watched the world change around her, outlasting wars, ...

Gramma, one of San Diego Zoo’s most beloved residents, has died at around 141 years old, zoo officials said. She was born in ...

Tortoises are among the longest living creatures on the Earth, they have a slow and steady pace that often intrigues people ...

Gramma was brought from the Galapagos Islands to the Bronx Zoo in the 1900s and survived more than 20 US presidents and both ...

Gramma, a Galápagos tortoise and the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, died Nov. 20. Her estimated 141-year lifespan ...

From tortoises to crocodiles, meet the five longest-living land species that regularly cross 100 years and beyond.

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A Jacksonville woman's quarter-sized tortoise grew into something unexpected: a conservation movement. Now she's using her ...

Gramma arrived in San Diego between 1928–1931 as part of the first group of Galápagos tortoises to come to the zoo.

According to the zoo’s website, Mickey hatched at the Sea World San Diego in 1984, and was then brought to Pittsburgh in 2003 ...

Turtles and tortoises, though sharing ancient ancestry and a protective shell, exhibit significant differences in habitat, ...