Here’s something you might not know about tortoises: They have nerve endings in their shells, which means they can feel it when you pet them. If you don’t believe it, watch Redfoot wiggle around when ...

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 ...

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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (WSVN) — Officials are searching for the person who painted the shell of a gopher tortoise in Central Florida. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shared a photo ...

An ocean and thousands of miles separate Western Pennsylvania and Saharan Africa, but surprisingly, they share a resident — the sulcata tortoise. In recent years, sulcatas have crowded reptile rescues ...

Attention reptile-lovers, what do you call an animal that lives in a shell made of bone and keratin, shuffles along at a slow pace and lives on land? Any guesses? You may have off-handedly answered ...

An ocean and thousands of miles separate Western Pennsylvania and Saharan Africa, but surprisingly, they share a resident — the sulcata tortoise. In recent years, sulcatas have crowded reptile rescues ...