When I visit the Diversity of Birds exhibit at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo and spot the radiated tortoise, I think of the story of the tortoise and the hare. The radiated tortoise looks as though it ...

It is important for all of us to get out and see the world. The same is true of our animal companions. Just take this adorable tortoise, for example. Oh, and this tortoise goes by the name of Tiptoe, ...

The Ruhland family is used to finding wildlife on their property. Rattlesnakes, javelinas, quail, raccoons and rabbits are ordinary visitors in their neck of northeast Mesa. They’ve even come home to ...

A team of biologists from the Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) reported today that Madagascar's radiated tortoise – considered one of the most beautiful tortoise ...

Radiated tortoises are cute. They are not actually radioactive but are critically endangered. Understanding this, the Denver Zoo has joined a coordinated effort to save 11,000 of the world's most ...

The ploughshare tortoise's ornate golden shell makes it a popular black market pet. In California, the Turtle Conservancy is trying to give the... To Save Endangered Tortoises, Conservationists Deface ...

What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...

The radiated tortoise, once common throughout Madagascar, faces extinction within the next 20 years due to poaching for its meat and the illegal pet trade, according to biologists with the Turtle ...