They are quite an astonishing sight with their huge domed shells, their big scaly legs and their oddly prehistoric faces. The giant tortoises aren’t the only natural wonders on Bird Island.

The Chiefs or the Eagles? People are making their big game predictions, and we turned to a baby Hermann's Tortoise for its ...

Around 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, Lisa Seger, co-owner of Blue Heron Farm and Beer Garden in rural Waller County, Texas, walked outside to check on her 90-pound, 30-year-old tortoise, Jeremy.

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The first time a tortoise walked through my hut at Middle Camp on Aldabra Atoll, I was amazed. I grabbed my camera and ...

People often use the words turtle and tortoise interchangeably, but these reptiles have distinct differences: Turtle shells are typically more flattened and not as deeply domed as tortoise shells, but ...