Whether you’re a proud tortoise owner or taking care of a playful aquatic turtle, understanding what your reptile buddy can ...

"One is that it is a pet tortoise that possibly escaped and made its way on to what were the ruins of the great earthquake," he said. A likelier possibility is that it was a tortoise from the ...

means more baby tortoises than adoptive families. Add to that a 50-plus-year lifespan and the result is hundreds of tortoises surrendered to the state every year. The reptile pet trade can be ...