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 ...

Experts fitted the endangered ploughshare tortoise with a unique set of rollers to help him retain his mobility before moving the animal to his new home at the Chester Zoo Shafiq Najib is a former ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The forest hinge-back tortoise is an unusual animal whose shell can swing down 90 degrees in the rear to protect itself from predators. However, ...

She’s got a “beautiful soul” and an appetite to match. And, thanks to a few new friends, she’ll soon be walking on her own. Four mechanical engineering students at Washington State University dropped ...

If you happen to be wandering the Mojave Desert and come across a desert tortoise, don’t poke around the critter too closely—you could end up covered with a surprise spray of artificial grape fluid.

In a video captured last year in Victorville, a raven can be seen pecking at a shell on the desert floor. With scrub brush and electric transmission towers in the background, three other ravens stand ...