PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sixteen critically endangered western Santa Cruz tortoises born to some very old parents got a slow walk and the red carpet treatment Wednesday at a Philadelphia Zoo event to show ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. People often use the words turtle and tortoise interchangeably, but these reptiles have distinct differences: Turtle shells are typically more ...
Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...
The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large distances Kevin Gepford Life on Aldabra atoll, on the western fringe of the ...
Conservationists and villagers in southern Madagascar aim to release 20,000 critically endangered radiated tortoises rescued from the illegal wildlife trade back into their unique spiny forest home.
The Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo is home to Leopold, a leopard tortoise from the Sudan grasslands in Africa, who is ...
Community-led antitrafficking networks are proving pivotal in helping authorities intercept poachers targeting critically endangered and endemic tortoises in southern Madagascar’s fast-disappearing ...