Discover the ancient Feng Shui secret of placing a tortoise in your home to invite longevity, stability, and prosperity.

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 ...

Tommy moves with the measured half-gait of a senior citizen—as he should, considering his advanced age and earth-collapsing weight. When a tortoise is in his third or fourth century and tips the ...

Diego the giant tortoise may be over 100 years old, but he’s been doing his best to save his species by having lots and lots of sex. Yes, it’s true. Diego, a Galapagos giant tortoise who lives on the ...

Tortoise Gets Stuck Under the Table and Unknowingly Drags Dinner Away From the Family originally appeared on PetHelpful. Sometimes pets don’t realize just how big they are and end up wedged in the ...

Researchers filmed a giant tortoise stalking and killing a baby tern on an island in the Seychelles. The video is the first direct evidence of tortoises hunting. See more stories on Insider's business ...

LOS ANGELES -- When Caitlin Doran put a tortoise on her Christmas list as a 7-year-old, she didn't think she'd get one, let alone grasp that if she did she'd have to care for him the rest of her life.

A two-headed tortoise in Switzerland is celebrating his 25th birthday on Saturday. Janus, a Greek tortoise named after the two-headed Roman god, hatched at the Geneva Natural History Museum in 1997 — ...