It sounds like a fable or a fairy tale. The main characters are an orphaned baby hippopotamus and a 130-year-old giant tortoise. The hippo was rescued from a natural disaster of biblical ...

Here’s how it works. In shocking new video footage, a giant tortoise creeps toward a baby bird perched on a log, slowly and steadily cornering the chick before chomping down on its tiny skull.

Researchers filmed a giant tortoise stalking and killing a baby tern on an island in the Seychelles. The video is the first direct evidence of tortoises hunting. See more stories on Insider's ...

Researchers have captured the moment when a livelong vegetarian broke rank to eat meat – and what made it all the more “horrifying” was that it was a tortoise. Scientists captured the moment ...

But the healthy baby spider tortoise that began pecking through its shell normally on June 8 is proof that a little glue and some tender loving care can go a long way. Exactly four weeks earlier ...

NAIROBI, Jan 6: A baby-hippopotamus that survived the tsumani waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of ...