LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A Las Vegas nonprofit wants to stop the backyard breeding of tortoises. Tortoise Group Board Chair, Laura Deitsch, says right now there are about 150,000 pet tortoises in the ...

If more tortoises such as Fernanda are found, conservationists could begin a captive breeding program to keep her species alive. Both Fernanda and the 1906 tortoise have really high genetic diversity ...

DENVER (KDVR) — An egg that was found in a tortoise habitat at the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance over the winter has successfully hatched a tiny, but largely important, baby tortoise. Tuesday, the ...

ROME – Rome’s main zoo has successfully bred several rare Egyptian tortoises whose parents were rescued from a smuggler’s suitcase in 2005, officials said. The first egg hatched in April, six more ...

An ESF scientist is part of a research team that has discovered there are two species of giant tortoises — not just one, as had been long believed — living on the island of Santa Cruz in the center of ...