There’s a good chance the adorable kitten in this video would pass on Aladdin’s magic carpet, because he already has a strange but comfy and reliable mode of transport. "My kittens get on Turtle the ...

Attention reptile-lovers, what do you call an animal that lives in a shell made of bone and keratin, shuffles along at a slow pace and lives on land? Any guesses? You may have off-handedly answered ...

Rupert is a radiated tortoise, a species native to the island of Madagascar and one of the most heavily trafficked tortoises ...

Now this is a friend you can count on. When one tortoise saw his friend had flipped upside-down, and onto his shell, his adrenaline-fueled reflexes took hold. At lightning speed, the hero tortoise got ...

CINCINNATI — Bruno the tortoise isn't winning any races against hares or otherwise, but when Cincinnati Zoo noticed he was running even slower than usual, they had to get creative. The Cincinnati Zoo ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The forest hinge-back tortoise is an unusual animal whose shell can swing down 90 degrees in the rear to protect itself from predators. However, ...

Once fully trained, Echo will be the first dog in the United States that sniffs out gopher tortoises, according to Jones and Kristine Hoffmann, a wildlife biologist and conservation dog handler from ...

Three lion cubs investigated a leopard tortoise at a Gauteng game reserve in an encounter showing how young predators explore ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. He spent decades in a zoo, fathered 900 children and helped ...

Clever Goat Rides to Breakfast on Tortoise's Back and Everyone is Cracking Up originally appeared on PetHelpful. In this modern day and age, taking a ride share has become a regular occurrence. People ...