It's 5 a.m. and my left leg is wedged irretrievably between a couple of Brits, who are spooning in somnolent bliss as our strangely loaded bus trundles through the Sierra foothills. Everywhere are ...

Animal care officers took the tortoise to Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation in San Antonio, where the animal's owners reclaimed the reptile Alexandra Schonfeld is a staff editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

CHICAGO -- Harvey the tortoise is once again safe thanks to Chicago police after he was discovered walking along a road near O'Hare International Airport. Police were called and Harvey, who weighs 30 ...

A pet 75-pound tortoise has been reunited with his owners who were forced to leave him behind, after sheriff's deputies found the animal trying to escape the wildfires that had prompted an evacuation ...

You may have heard of Diego the Galapagos tortoise by now – the legendary Casanova that did God’s work and single-handledly saved his species from extinction by fathering more than 800 offspring. But ...