A rare two-headed baby tortoise has baffled experts, who predict it's likely to live a long, healthy life despite its anomaly. The mutant tortoise has two heads and four front legs but only one set of ...

An unlikely friendship between an orange cat and a pet tortoise has warmed hearts among internet users after their owner shared their story in a viral TikTok video. Juno and Woody have been ...

Not a lot of people know this, but the distinction between a tortoise and a turtle only works in one direction. In other words, all tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises. Both types ...

The St. Johns River has a wonderful and diverse variety of wildlife. The river’s vertebrate wildlife includes all the fish species in the water and birds in the air too. But there are also frogs, ...

Turtles and tortoises are both reptiles with shells, but they're not exactly the same. So how can you tell them apart? What's the difference between a turtle and a tortoise? "All tortoises are turtles ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) – Video of a giant tortoise ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) – Video of a giant tortoise ...

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(NEXSTAR) – Video of a giant tortoise hunting down and eating a baby bird is leaving biologists a little shell-shocked. The video, filmed in July on Fregate Island in the Seychelles, has been released ...