Con Dao National Park in Ho Chi Minh City has officially been awarded the prestigious IUCN Green List certification, becoming ...

Coaxing a lizard out of its shell by stimulating the egg is a surprising way to mimic its natural environment.

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. She moved ...

This video captures the intense rescue effort to save baby tortoises trapped underground. The unstable soil threatens to ...

Turtles and tortoises, though sharing ancient ancestry and a protective shell, exhibit significant differences in habitat, ...

Artificial incubation has led to the first successful hatching of Aldabra Giant Tortoises in the Seychelles, following groundbreaking research that revealed their low hatching success in the wild was ...

The Tulsa Zoo is displaying the seven Aldabra tortoises to visitors for the first time since they hatched this summer. The hatchlings are the first Aldabra tortoises born at the zoo in seven years.

PHILADELPHIA – 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 off ...

After a female tortoise is fertilized, she undergoes several changes. After mating, the female tortoise will carry eggs for weeks to months, depending on the species. As the female tortoise gets ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPHL) — The Philadelphia Zoo continues to make history: three more critically endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises have hatched at the Zoo. Courtesy: Philadelphia Zoo These ...