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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stuart, a 45-year-old female box turtle, could live until she is 80 years old. Azzy, a 17-year-old sulcata tortoise, could live to be 150. Stuart and Azzy are among about 250 turtles and tortoises ...

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 ...

Customs agents in the Philippines recovered 1,500 live turtles and tortoises that were found covered in duct tape and stashed inside four unclaimed pieces of luggage at a Manilla airport. CNN ...

Mitch Telson’s affection for turtles and tortoises goes back to his boyhood, when he drove across the country from Baltimore with a box turtle in his lap. His collection has grown slightly since then ...

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 ...

Customs officials in the Philippines have seized 1,529 live turtles found wrapped in duct tape inside four suitcases abandoned at the international airport in Manila. The confiscated turtles include ...