Alagba, Nigeria's royal tortoise alleged to be the oldest in Africa, lived to the estimated age of 344 before its death on ...

NORTH PORT, Fla. — A community wide search in North Port led to the safe return of a missing African spurred tortoise named Ninja, who escaped his outdoor enclosure on Sunday.

Mr Miyagi, an African sulcata tortoise, has become somewhat of a local celebrity in the seaside town since grandmother Jackie Leek struck up a remarkable bond with him 18 months ago. Ms Leek ...

Seymour the tortoise is rooting for a three-peat. Saturday morning at the Catawba Science Center in Hickory, Seymour, a ...

Two giant tortoises stolen from a Dorset college have been found. Four African spurred tortoises, three female and one male, were taken from a shed on the site of Kingston Maurward College ...

She’s had the 15-year-old tortoise since he was a hatchling the size of a ping-pong ball. He’s now about 36 inches long and is still growing. Also known as the African spurred tortoise ...

This is a developing story. For the latest local updates head to LAist.com and sign up for breaking news alerts. Dark gray smoke puffed into the sky behind him as Tiptoe the African sulcata tortoise ...