We don’t know if a tortoise can really smile but it sure looks like Myrtle, a pet tortoise, is overjoyed to be back with its ...

After fleeing their home to escape a tornado, a Kokomo, Mississippi, family returned to find their beloved tortoise was ...

Even more remarkably, Mommy is the oldest first-time parent of her species, according to a press release from the zoo. Mommy ...

Gopher tortoises, fiddler crabs, African termites, giraffes and beavers are among the animals that could inspire cooling ...

The two oldest residents of the Philadelphia Zoo are brand new parents to four hatchlings — a major milestone for this ...

A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time ...

Two endangered Galapagos tortoises have become parents for the first time at nearly the age of 100, the Philadelphia Zoo has announced.

The births were a "first" in the zoo's 150-year history, and Mommy, who arrived in 1932, was the oldest known first-time ...

The black spiny-tailed iguana has colonized Gasparilla Island, where it they outnumber humans five to one, undermining sea walls and dunes, gobbling native plants and gopher tortoise eggs and pooping ...

Like all nonnative reptile species, green iguanas aren't protected in Florida except by anti-cruelty law and can be humanely ...