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 ...

Among our rescued animal ambassadors at Adam’s Animal Encounters is a tank who took a beating but is doing better. We call our sulcata tortoise Tank. We picked him up in last July after he almost got ...

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 ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Her 50-year-old, 250-pound Sulcata tortoise “Stumpy” died during the night – on World Turtle Day, May 23. His caregiver brought him to Hoffman three weeks ago because Stumpy was listless and not ...

You know how stories sometimes get bigger with the telling until they reach almost legendary proportions; well one man said his pet turtle is so big he walks it on a leash. That may be an exaggeration ...

Benjamin Franklin paid a visit to The Grand Strand on Saturday. No, not one. This one is nearly as old, though A Sulcata turtle, named Benjamin Franklin, stopped by the Surfside Beach area and drew ...