After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galapagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died.Gramma was born ...

Thinking about getting a pet turtle? Great choice! Turtles are low-maintenance, fascinating, and can live for decades. Don’t be surprised if some live even longer than their owners. But before you ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sixteen critically endangered western Santa Cruz tortoises born to some very old parents got a slow walk and the red carpet treatment Wednesday at a Philadelphia Zoo event to show ...

Mr. Potato Head, the El Paso Zoo's oldest resident, has revitalized digs, where he can roam on fresh grass, take a muddy dip in a wallow or stroll into his re-roofed barn to cool down on a straw bed.

Your indoor cat deserves a taste of the wild. But letting them roam free? That’s a recipe for worry. Thankfully there’s a brilliant solution that offers the best of both worlds: a catio. These outdoor ...

This is the amusing moment a zookeeper used a cart to relocate tortoises to their enclosure at a zoo in Japan. Point-of-view footage from the keeper shows him pushing the blue trolley with three ...

This is everything my pets eat in a day! Some of you guys were curious so I thought I’d show you what gets dished out!! Mysterious 'tire traps' plague city streets as locals take matters into their ...

The Nevada National Guard will deploy about 190 soldiers to assist with security during New Year’s Eve celebrations on the Las Vegas Strip and downtown Vegas. Signs of HOPE is launching a safety ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A Las Vegas nonprofit wants to stop the backyard breeding of tortoises. Tortoise Group Board Chair, Laura Deitsch, says right now there are about 150,000 pet tortoises in the ...

Since the beginning of April, we've seen a noticeable increase in baby bird admissions. One of our recent patients was a young pileated woodpecker. The bird was found hopping around a backyard, unable ...