Cherry head red-footed tortoises are a smaller variant of the red-footed tortoise, with the red-footed tortoise and have similar care requirements. Although some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildlife Hospital and Conservation Center staff care for desert tortoise hatchlings Thursday at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens ...

As backyard-bred desert tortoises slowly pile up in the Las Vegas Valley, a local adoption group is looking north for a new place to unload the surplus reptiles. The Tortoise Group has expanded its ...

Thoughts upon watching tortoises fight — again and again ...

JINING, China, Oct. 31 (UPI) --A pedestrian in China captured footage of a bizarre street fight between two tortoises featuring the larger reptile using its head. The video, recorded on a street in ...

While tucked away in her South Florida burrow, Grumpy Gertrude is ready to ram anyone who approaches too closely—including the biologists who study her. The 14-year-old gopher tortoise is a favorite ...

Happy birthday, Janus! The Natural History Museum in Geneva, Switzerland threw a birthday party for the two-headed tortoise they’ve raised since birth. He was named after the Roman God Janus, who is ...

Desert tortoises — the iconic reptile of the Mojave Desert — face plenty of dangers in the wild that scientists say pose long-term threats to the species: ravens, humans and climate change, to name a ...