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, ...

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

Lexicon of succulent plants : short descriptions, habitats and synonymy of succulent plants other than Cactaceae Bookreader Item Preview ... Jacobsen, Hermann, 1898-1978. Publication date 1974 Topics ...

"During the first two years of university, we had six budgie birds, two ferrets, two crested geckos, a leopard gecko and a Hermann's tortoise," says Wyatt. "Currently we have the tortoise, one crested ...

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.

“All animals with a backbone and a shell are turtles,” says Jeffrey Lovich, Research Ecologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, so it’s an umbrella term used for turtles, tortoises, and terrapins.

They discovered that the egg belonged to their pancake tortoise Waffles. Successful Hatching of Critically Endangered Tortoise in Denver. The Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance jumped into action and ...

DENVER — An egg that was found in a tortoise habitat at the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance over the winter has successfully hatched a tiny, but largely important, baby tortoise.Tuesday, the zoo ...

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 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.

With its intricate, patterned shell, the near-threatened Karoo tent tortoise is a unique and hard-to-find resident of South Africa’s drylands. This is just one dryland species that conservation ...

Habitat loss is the greatest threat to gopher tortoises. As humans move into tortoise territory, the gopher often finds himself on the losing end of battles with cars, pets and people.