For the first time in nearly 150 years, giant tortoises are back on Galapagos' Floreana Island, guided home by NASA satellite data.

More than 150 giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Floreana Island in Ecuador's famed Galapagos archipelago where they ...

Madagascar has been hit by two major storms in February, cyclone Fytia and cyclone Gezani. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced, and officials have described the aftermath as "total ...

Nearly 150 years after the last giant tortoises were removed from Floreana Island in Ecuador’s Galápagos archipelago, the ...

On a remote island in North Macedonia, male Hermann’s tortoises outnumber females 19 to 1, an imbalance driving the population to extinction.

The video follows the construction of new aviaries and a dedicated tortoise habitat from the ground up Steel frames concrete bases and enclosure walls show how the spaces are taking physical shape Eac ...

Off-roading is now off-limits on routes spanning 1 million acres of the western Mojave Desert after a six-year legal battle over whether adding thousands of miles of new dirt roads would harm the ...

In this April 4, 2008 file photo, Marines wait for a desert tortoise to move off the road at the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) (CN ...

An owner of a young Russian tortoise feels very loved when it reaches its neck out to kiss her nose. (ViralHog via YouTube) COZY COUCH SOMEWHERE — An owner of a young Russian tortoise feels very loved ...

COZY COUCH SOMEWHERE — An owner of a young Russian tortoise feels very loved when it reaches its neck out to kiss her nose. For the turtle, that's quite the stretch, for a type of animal that is ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Nevada transportation officials have completed dozens of tunnels and what are called turnarounds, to protect the federally-protected Mojave desert tortoise population, which is ...