The tortoise looked like Freddy Krueger before his new shell. — -- A tortoise has a second chance in life after a team of designers in Brazil custom-made a shell for the reptile, which was badly ...

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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.

SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8/COUNTY NEWS CENTER) — A 70-pound African tortoise was injured during a fall in Fallbrook over the weekend and needed emergency care to repair his shell. The animal was found with a ...

It would be a memorable sight. But it would also be so wrong to tip over Galápagos giant tortoises to see how shell shape affects their efforts to leg-pump, neck-stretch and rock right-side up again.

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is offering a reward for information after a gopher tortoise was found completely covered in red spray paint with ...

A large tortoise that fell off a 10 foot high wall and cracked its shell is now recovering after an expensive surgery. The 90 pound African spurred tortoise was likely kept as a pet and escaped from ...

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 ...

From left, Charlotte Modesitt, Ray Swick and Susie Ashley pose with Sammy. Sammy got loose from Swick on June 19 at Civitan Park in Belpre and was lost for nearly a week before being found by Jenny ...

EUSTIS — Volunteers tidying up the community on Tuesday came across a horrific sight: more than a dozen gopher tortoise shells in the woods with holes apparently drilled into them. They found the ...