Biologists trudged through the grassy nature preserve carrying cloth bags that contained fearsome-seeming cargo: 42 snake-eating apex predators. The conservation program has now released 209 Eastern ...

The displacement of gopher tortoises illustrates how even resilient species are being pushed to their limits. Experts stunned ...

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The green-scaled iguanas have made their rounds around Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus while making it their ...

KOKOMO, Mississippi (AP) — Myrtle, a cherished pet tortoise, has been reunited with its family in Mississippi weeks after disappearing during a deadly tornado outbreak in March. “He’s been ...

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Over 100 desert tortoises at the Arizona Game and Fish Department need a forever home. AZGFD says the reptiles will soon wake up from brumation, which is similar to hibernation, and this is the ...

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ST. LOUIS (Gray News) – The Saint Louis Zoo is mourning the death of one of its oldest residents – an Aldabra giant tortoise that was well over 100 years old. The zoo said the tortoise named ...

If something can fit in their mouth, they’ll swallow it whole—unlike fruit bats, which eat figs on location and spit out the seeds. Some seeds benefit from spending time in a tortoise’s gut.