Russian Tortoise baby on a person's hand. This young tortoise posted by through.the.lleaves is the cutest thing ever. Fig, a little leopard tortoise, enjoys a good scratch on his bony bottom, wiggling ...

Over the phone, Donato instructed the team to keep the tortoise’s exposed soft tissue damp by rinsing the shell with saline ...

The right side of the tortoise's carapace, or shell, was completely shattered.

If you happen to be wandering the Mojave Desert and come across a desert tortoise, don’t poke around the critter too closely—you could end up covered with a surprise spray of artificial grape fluid.

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A leopard tortoise named Cleopatra is wearing a prosthetic shell thanks to 3D printing technology. Cleopatra's shell suffers from a condition known as either "pyramiding" or "peaking," which means ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo is home to five Radiated Tortoises: four females and one male. “They get their name from the patterns on their shell. That’s how you can tell ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida animal sanctuary is reminding residents and tourists to stop painting the shells of turtles and gopher tortoises. The reminder comes after a female gopher tortoise was ...