Clark County commissioners voted last week to stop picking up and caring for unwanted pet Mojave Desert tortoises as of the end of the year. The county has been funding the care of the cast-off ...

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 the ...

An international expedition to a remote Galapagos Island rescued enough tortoises to start a breeding program that may help resurrect an extinct species, investigators from Yale University report Sept ...

ROME – Rome’s main zoo has successfully bred several rare Egyptian tortoises whose parents were rescued from a smuggler’s suitcase in 2005, officials said. The first egg hatched in April, six more ...

With his long leathery neck, dull-yellow face and beady eyes, there’s just something about Diego. A tortoise more than 100 years old, Diego has had little trouble mating. A member of Chelonoidis ...

Diego, the Galápagos tortoise from the San Diego Zoo who helped save his species from extinction in a conservancy program on the Galápagos Islands, will be released into the wild in Española to enjoy ...

Authorities in Ecuador have confirmed that 123 baby giant turtles were stolen from the Arnaldo Tupiza breeding center on Isabela, the largest island of the Galápagos, on the night of Sept. 24. The ...