Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.

Three lion cubs investigated a leopard tortoise at a Gauteng game reserve in an encounter showing how young predators explore ...

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s most impressive longevity experiments. Giant tortoises are redefining what ...

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 ...

A TORTOISE is set to celebrate turning 13 with a party thrown by his family. Norman came to Kayleigh Hunter as a two-year-old baby after being surrendered. Now he is a beloved member of the Hunter ...

Death Valley’s wildlife beats the odds in a place defined by extremes. The hottest, driest, and lowest landscape in the ...

Saving gopher tortoises means protecting their homes, not just moving them By Bonnie Jean Feldkamp A rescued gopher tortoise arrived at the Nokuse Nature Preserve in Florida’s Panhandle while my ...