After a female tortoise is fertilized, she undergoes several changes. After mating, the female tortoise will carry eggs for weeks to months, depending on the species. As the female tortoise gets ...

A tortoise thought to be male for 41 years has laid four eggs. The pet called 'Speedy' always displayed ''male tendencies" including head-butting shoes and mounting various objects. But owner Jill ...

One nearly century-old tortoise has been a fixture of the Philadelphia Zoo since 1932 — and now she’s living up to her name. Mommy, the estimated 97-year-old Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise, ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – For the first time ever, the radiated tortoises at the Fort Wayne Zoo laid eggs. “We’re super excited. We like to say we’re egg-cited for the new eggs,” Jenny McFarland, an ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...

UNDY’S world-famous ‘male’ tortoise has a twin. After reading about Speedy, Jill Mancino’s misgendered egg-laying tortoise in the South Wales Argus, retired Newport singer, Karen Watkins, contacted us ...