Also in the lineup is Buffalo, the Hermann’s Tortoise, affectionately known as Boof, who went from being abandoned in a local garden to living his best life as the pampered “child” of a ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A Las Vegas nonprofit wants to stop the backyard breeding of tortoises. Tortoise Group Board Chair, Laura Deitsch, says right now there are about 150,000 pet tortoises in ...

Atlas, a local 14-year-old pet tortoise, is now back home safe and sound after he went on a big adventure. He was on the run, ...

A baby African pancake tortoise hatched for the first time ever at the Denver Zoo on Friday, May 23, 2025. Pancake tortoises are critically endangered in the wild.

A Florida family planned their dream home, until protected tortoises took over. Now, they're paying $1,300 in taxes for ...

A female African pancake tortoise hatched at the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance on May 23, 2025, marking the zoo’s first-ever successful breeding and hatching of the Critically Endangered species.

Following the party, Reptile Gardens, on social media, posted pictures of Orville wearing a party hat and wrote, "A HUGE ...

In Florida, a boom in new housing developments is intruding on the habitat of gopher tortoises, a 9- to 11-inch-long, 10-pound, 60 million-year-old species that has been federally protected since ...

The United States Bureau of Land Management approved a new gold mine project near Wickenburg. The project raised environmental concerns regarding water usage, potential groundwater contamination ...

Pancake tortoises are Critically Endangered, and this marks the first successful breeding and hatching at DZCA." There are fewer than 5,000 African pancake tortoises left in the world.

The BLM Hassayampa field office agreed to conduct clearance surveys for tortoises in response to LaRue's complaints, though Wonderly said that "habitat quality in the site is generally poor due to ...

Goliath, a 517-pound Galapagos tortoise and the oldest animal at Zoo Miami, celebrated his 135th birthday and became a father for the first time, zoo officials announced in a post on Facebook. Zoo ...