An injured tortoise living at a zoo in Iowa was given a specially-made device to help him move around. Barnaby the Aldabra tortoise is 85 years old, weighs nearly 500 pounds and is the oldest resident ...

What is the Aldabra giant tortoise and why is it important? The Aldabra giant is the second-largest species of land tortoise in the world, after the Galapagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra). It ...

Kendra Coulter's new book, "The Tortoise Tale", helps us recognize the interconnectedness of all life and shows how an unlikely wild neighbor can help us see ourselves anew.

Today, tortoises are being rewilded and recognized for both their inherent worth and benefits to local ecosystems and ...

The giant tortoises symbolise the strong bond between India and Seychelles. In 2018, Seychelles gifted a pair of Aldabra giant tortoises to India, which were housed at the Nehru Zoological Park in ...

Goober is a male Aldabra tortoise. He first arrived at Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens 56 years ago on June 17, 1968. Since the zoo doesn’t know his birthday they use this day as an anniversary for ...

SAN ANTONIO – Aldabra tortoises — one of the largest tortoise species in the world — now call SeaWorld San Antonio home. SeaWorld San Antonio said Tuesday that the new exhibit, called Aldabra Island, ...

London — Britain's Devon and Cornwall police appealed for information from the public on Wednesday after seven giant tortoises were found dead in an English forest over the past two weeks. Police said ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - It is a time of mourning and grieving at the Idaho Falls Zoo. Aldabra tortoise, Butros, passed away in the middle of January. On Thursday, the zoo dedicated a personal ...

ST. LOUIS (Gray News) – The Saint Louis Zoo is mourning the death of one of its oldest residents – an Aldabra giant tortoise that was well over 100 years old. The zoo said the tortoise named Othello ...