Though cats and dogs may dominate the pet sphere worldwide, lizards, snakes and other reptiles still remain among the most popular types of exotic pets. Though they might not have the same broad ...

Analysts predict a significant uptick in U.S. gasoline prices due to the escalating conflict involving U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.

Books rise to the level of enduring art, I believe, when their writers take something ordinary and reintroduce it in a way ...

With some traditional retailers looking for the exit doors at shopping malls across the country or vanishing completely, malls can be forced to evolve or die. Change has become the norm at Chapel ...

Giant tortoises take first steps on Galápagos island after nearly 200 years Source: Ecuadorean Ministry of Environment ...

Ecuador's environment ministry said it has released 158 giant tortoises on Floreana Island, marking a major step in a ...

This week, the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter took in dozens of reptiles after an emergency rescue following a death in Baltimore.

A tortoise in narrowly escaped a blaze in its California home. Leo, a female sulcata tortoise, was forced to make a hasty exit when a fire broke out in her crib, or a shed in the backyard, on Super ...

Dean Fioresi is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. He covers breaking news throughout Southern California. When he's not writing about local events, he enjoys focusing on sports and entertainment.

FULLERTON, Calif. (KABC) -- A pet tortoise escaped a fire that destroyed the shed she lives in after a heat lamp fell and ignited her enclosure in Fullerton. The incident, which was partially captured ...

Off-roading is now off-limits on routes spanning 1 million acres of the western Mojave Desert after a six-year legal battle over whether adding thousands of miles of new dirt roads would harm the ...

Gramma, the beloved Galapagos tortoise who lived at the San Diego Zoo for nearly a century, has died on Nov. 20. She was (about) 141. The zoo's care team "made the compassionate and exceptionally ...