A police officer turned his gun on a home intruder with a difference - a violent tortoise . Charles Onegiu, from the Nebbi district of Uganda, said he shot the creature dead after it entered his grass ...

A Hope Township resident is desperately searching for a non-aggressive, 14-inch, 35-pound pet sulcata tortoise that escaped from Hull and 5 Mile roads Saturday, pushing through a plank. “He's dear to ...

A predator doesn’t need to have the quickest speed or reflexes to catch a bird. In a paper publishing August 23 in the journal Current Biology, researchers report the first documented evidence of a ...

For many species, parents stay with their young for a certain time after birth. The video below shows a heartwarming exchange between father and son, but it is an exception to the rule. It’s rare that ...

Generally, tortoises do not swim, according to Andy C. Highfield, author of the Tortoise Trust Guide to Tortoises and Turtles. In the case of commonly kept pet species, "deep water is a serious hazard ...