Dust off those glasses because that’s not Tony Hawk you’re seeing. Thanks to four mechanical engineering students at Washington State University, a disabled tortoise in the Tri-Cities has a new ...

What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...

The Burmese star tortoise (Geochelone platynota) is characterized by well defined, symmetrical star patterns that radiate across the reptile’s carapace or shell. Very little is known about the species ...

Two people were arrested in Thailand in connection with a group of stolen Burmese star tortoises, a critically endangered species, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced on Tuesday. The ...