Sonoran desert tortoises have emerged from hibernation this spring, and many of them are in need of a place to call home. Arizona Game and Fish is offering free adoptions of these captive reptiles ...

PHOENIX — The Arizona Game and Fish Department has about 260 Sonoran desert tortoises looking for forever homes. “That’s a lot. It’s the most we’ve had at one time, for sure,” said Tegan Wolf, AZGFD's ...

PHOENIX — It’s a rainy morning when tortoises at the Adobe Mountain Wildlife Center are taken from their dens for health evaluations. The sleepy, muddy creatures might not be too happy with the ...

Two rare Northern Spider Tortoises have been donated to Missouri Southern to help boost their population and provide a unique ...

The flyer and social media posts were the first peek into a Laingsburg community odyssey that lasted 13 months. As a young child, Mason Kent was fascinated by tortoises – including the red foot ...

The Arizona Game and Fish Department has 200 desert tortoises up for adoption. George Andrejko, Arizona Game and Fish Department Two hundred desert tortoises in Arizona are in search of homes, the ...

A tortoise which had made its way onto the tracks at a busy train station has been rescued and returned home. The runaway ...

The tortoise, age 50, managed to make a "slow getaway" from its home in May 2021, leaving the man's eight-year-old daughter devastated, the British news agency SWNS reported. The family in England ...

Normally, tortoises are pictured as moving really slowly, but one backyard pet in the suburbs left that idea in the dust.

Tank the Tortoise is missing no more. This week, we told you about the large African Tortoise on the loose in Lynchburg. Dan Baker was worried sick that he'd never get him back. Luckily, his neighbor ...

A runaway tortoise was saved after it wandered onto a busy railway line. The pet, named Mr. T, was spotted clambering onto ...