NORTH PORT, Fla. — A community wide search in North Port led to the safe return of a missing African spurred tortoise named Ninja, who escaped his outdoor enclosure on Sunday.

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.

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

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 ...

Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene. In the early years of the 20th century, they still thrived within the Southwest's arid ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for ...