If you live in a dry, warm climate, the Desert tortoise is an excellent choice. These guys are low-maintenance, hardy, and ...

The Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo is home to Leopold, a leopard tortoise from the Sudan grasslands in Africa, who is ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago revealed animal X-rays days in the Halloween spirit. Can you match the animal to the X-ray?

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Leopard Tortoise (Geochelone pardalis) is the largest of the southern African species and has a wide distribution encompassing a variety ...

HE may have bitten off more than he can chew but this little tortoise is one sweet little fella. Six tiny leopard tortoises entered the world a week ago as a result of a successful breeding program.

The 10-inch African Leopard Tortoise escaped its owner's Bay Ridge backyard on April 21 and hasn't been seen since. Doris is an African Leopard Tortoise who apparently escaped her owner’s backyard ...

Cleopatra is an adorable leopard tortoise whose life was saved after an American university student used 3D printing to build her a new shell. Suffering from a deformity known as "pyramiding", ...

BAY RIDGE, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A community in Brooklyn is coming together to help a neighbor track down her beloved tortoise that's been missing for a week. The tortoise named Doris escaped her owner's ...

Although many reptiles, including tortoises, may be equipped morphologically to discriminate colors, there is very little experimental evidence that reptiles distinguish among hues and levels of ...

In 1835 Charles Darwin, the father of the theory of evolution, was exploring an island in the Galápagos archipelago when he encountered “two large tortoises, each of which must have weighed at least ...

This is the utterly random moment a pair of horny tortoises interrupt a leopard hunting its prey. As tourist Matthew Poole filmed the patient predator stalking its next meal on the Sand River bank at ...