Not a lot of people know this, but the distinction between a tortoise and a turtle only works in one direction. In other words, all tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises. Both types ...

A rare two-headed baby tortoise has baffled experts, who predict it's likely to live a long, healthy life despite its anomaly. The mutant tortoise has two heads and four front legs but only one set of ...

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Mommy, the Philadelphia Zoo's oldest resident, is living up to her name. A pair of nearly 100-year-old tortoises have welcomed four baby hatchlings at the Philadelphia Zoo. "All are doing well, eating ...

The St. Johns River has a wonderful and diverse variety of wildlife. The river’s vertebrate wildlife includes all the fish species in the water and birds in the air too. But there are also frogs, ...

(NEXSTAR) – Video of a giant tortoise hunting down and eating a baby bird is leaving biologists a little shell-shocked. The video, filmed in July on Fregate Island in the Seychelles, has been released ...