The St. Johns River has a wonderful and diverse variety of wildlife. The river’s vertebrate wildlife includes all the fish species in the water and birds in the air too. But there are also frogs, ...

Q. I know tortoises live on land. Does that mean box turtles (which also live on land) are tortoises? How many true tortoises are there, what parts of the world do they live in and how big do they get ...

Jackie Tliemat is a PhD student at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi studying diseases in Texas Tortoises May 23, 2024 is World Turtle Day Texas Tortoises are a threatened species and people often ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly two months after more than 10,000 critically endangered tortoises were seized from wildlife traffickers, medical teams say signs of progress are showing. In April, Zoo Knoxville herpetologist ...

After nearly 50 years living on a kitchen floor in New Jersey and eating a diet of mainly cat food, Rockalina the turtle was in rough shape. But after 11 months of rehabilitation, she's thriving — and ...