Goliath had been paired with several female tortoises before, in hopes of producing a hatchling, but the process wasn't ...

The mother of the tortoise hatchling is also pushing record numbers, with an age between 85 and 100 years old. “Sweet Pea” ...

The Denver Zoo welcomed a new member to the family recently, a rare African pancake tortoise that's so small she can fit in ...

Sailor Hall took some time away from the care and feeding of their charges to talk about the joys of working with creatures ...

MIAMI -- A South Florida zoo's oldest resident celebrated his 135th birthday and his first Father's Day on Sunday. Goliath, a 517-pound (234-kilogram) Galapagos tortoise at Zoo Miami, became a father ...

The Tulsa Zoo is giving its male and female Aldabra tortoises a seasonal break from each other by moving the females behind the scenes.

It looks like Goliath, the Galápagos tortoise, just set a world record for becoming the world’s oldest father.

Zoo CEO Evan Killeen said each animal has a temperature threshold. For example, colobus monkeys and lemurs, native to tropical climates, require cooling support at about 95 to 100 degrees. Humboldt ...

During that cleanup, park officials noticed something had changed across the more than 1,100-acre park – an exploding gopher tortoise population. Fort De Soto Park Manager, Dave Harshbarger ...

“All animals with a backbone and a shell are turtles,” says Jeffrey Lovich, Research Ecologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, so it’s an umbrella term used for turtles, tortoises, and terrapins.