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BBC footage shows baby painted turtles frozen solid through winter, then miraculously thaw and come back to life ...

Mojave desert tortoises wander across roads while searching for food, water and mates, putting them in the path of vehicles.

After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galápagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died. Gramma was born ...

ORO VALLEY, Ariz. (KGUN) — Neighbors in Oro Valley are heartbroken and outraged after a desert tortoise was found mutilated along a popular trail at Honeybee Park. Kendra, who asked to remain ...

Marco Wendt was 16 when he got a summer job at San Diego Zoo Safari Park, then known as the Wild Animal Park. A first-generation Mexican American, the first of his family born in the U.S., Wendt says ...

It took the expertise of three veterinarians from the New England Wildlife Center to carefully remove a one-pound bladder stone from a pet desert tortoise. The bladder stone, also known as a urolith, ...

Seven baby Aldabra tortoises are now on public display at the Tulsa Zoo, marking the first hatching of the species at the zoo in seven years. TULSA, Okla. - The Tulsa Zoo is displaying the seven ...

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