Tortoises can be fast when they need to be!

The world used to be full of giant tortoises, and the ones that live on the Seychelles and Galápagos islands are all we have left. But how did these big reptiles get to the islands in the first place?

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Action News Meteorologist Cecily Tynan was at the Philadelphia Zoo on Wednesday "just for the shell of it," during this edition of Zoo Adventures. Tynan got to meet Rocky, an ...

Researchers suggest that an earthquake spooked a mob of sea turtles gathered together in a prehistoric sea. By Carolyn Wilke Gramma, a Galápagos tortoise described by her care specialists as “the ...

What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...