The California Turtle and Tortoise Club, Inland Empire Chapter, will hold its annual turtle and tortoise show 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, a the ARK church, 1307 E. Citrus Ave., Redlands. The ...

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, ...

An Anderson-based turtle and tortoise sanctuary is branching out. Katie Hoffman and her husband, Ken, the owners of Tortoise Acres Rescue and Sanctuary, established a turtle and tortoise adoption ...

If the tortoise and the hare actually had a footrace, “slow and steady” probably wouldn’t cut it. But if they matched up in a cuteness contest, the tortoise might be the favorite for more people than ...

In a twist which could have come straight from a fable by Aesop, a tortoise that disappeared for a week was reunited with its owner after it was found 5 miles away at the house where it had lived a ...

The owner of a tortoise that an X-ray shows had swallowed a turtle pendant is from Clearwater and gave Bay News 9 an exclusive interview about the incident. "I noticed that he hadn’t used the bathroom ...

As a youngster, anything with a shell was a turtle -- whether I found one outside or saw them at the pet store. Later in life, I discovered the differences and also learned of a third category — ...

The source of a sick tortoise’s discomfort became clear after a south Florida veterinarian took an X-ray: The animal had swallowed a turtle pendant. Dr. Don Harris said the 15-pound male African ...