In this guide, we'll tell you everything you need to know about owning tortoises, including what they eat, what shelter they ...

That means Jonathan will turn, at the very least, a whopping 193 years old later this year. During that time, the giant tortoise has lived through US presidents from Andrew Jackson all the way to ...

Gopher tortoises are long-lived, reaching up to 100 years of age in captivity and living 60 or more years in the wild. They weigh 8 to 15 pounds and measure 10 to 15 inches end to end when fully ...

A Florida family planned their dream home, until protected tortoises took over. Now, they're paying $1,300 in taxes for unusable land.

After revelling in my 4-night cruise in the Galapagos Islands with Viva Expeditions, my dreamscape experience aboard La Pinta concluded with one final port call at Puerto Ayora, on Santa Cruz Island.

In Florida, a boom in new housing developments is intruding on the habitat of gopher tortoises, a 9- to 11-inch-long, 10-pound, 60 million-year-old species that has been federally protected since ...

“So many cameras.” Unusual in the pre-digital age, before rampant cellphone camera chronicles of everyone’s lives changed our visual landscape forever. This is what photographer and filmmaker Rachel ...

The Ministry of Justice confirmed some high security prisons allow inmates to have shellmates as a reward for good behaviour ...

his advice for a long life was simple but poetic: “Keep a quiet heart, sit like a tortoise, walk briskly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog.” These words reflected Li’s belief in calmness, gentle ...

Long known only as the site of Napoleon’s exile, Saint Helena is in fact a sanctuary of rare biodiversity, dramatic ...

At 86, the singer and songwriter is seeing his albums reissued as he occasionally takes the stage to celebrate his ...

Two years later, Pauline and her friend Sheila, eager to travel the world, got summer jobs as au pairs in Hope Ranch. She ...