An injured tortoise living at a zoo in Iowa was given a specially-made device to help him move around. Barnaby the Aldabra tortoise is 85 years old, weighs nearly 500 pounds and is the oldest resident ...

What is the Aldabra giant tortoise and why is it important? The Aldabra giant is the second-largest species of land tortoise in the world, after the Galapagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra). It ...

Bindi Irwin posted a sweet snap of her daughter, Grace, posing with a tortoise, whom Irwin revealed is one of Grace's "best ...

They can live for more than 100 years and weigh up to 250 kilograms -- Aldabra giant tortoises. Researchers have now decoded the genome of Aldabrachelys gigantea, one of only two remaining giant ...

London — Britain's Devon and Cornwall police appealed for information from the public on Wednesday after seven giant tortoises were found dead in an English forest over the past two weeks. Police said ...

SAN ANTONIO – Aldabra tortoises — one of the largest tortoise species in the world — now call SeaWorld San Antonio home. SeaWorld San Antonio said Tuesday that the new exhibit, called Aldabra Island, ...

Goober is a male Aldabra tortoise. He first arrived at Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens 56 years ago on June 17, 1968. Since the zoo doesn’t know his birthday they use this day as an anniversary for ...

The Tulsa Zoo is displaying the seven Aldabra tortoises to visitors for the first time since they hatched this summer. The hatchlings are the first Aldabra tortoises born at the zoo in seven years.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - It is a time of mourning and grieving at the Idaho Falls Zoo. Aldabra tortoise, Butros, passed away in the middle of January. On Thursday, the zoo dedicated a personal ...

ST. LOUIS (Gray News) – The Saint Louis Zoo is mourning the death of one of its oldest residents – an Aldabra giant tortoise that was well over 100 years old. The zoo said the tortoise named Othello ...

The deaths are under investigation because of the "unusual type of incident and the protected status of the animals," according to British police Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She ...