Tortoise, the jazzy electronic post-rock visionaries who helped to define Chicago’s experimental underground in the ’90s and 2000s, have not been especially active in the past decade and a half.

AP Photo/Sophie Bates A tortoise that was displaced from its home in Mississippi during a deadly tornado outbreak has finally been reunited with its family weeks later. Tiffany Emanuel told the ...

PHOENIX — The Desert Tortoise Adoption Program at the Arizona Game and Fish Department is seeking homes for over 100 desert tortoises. The tortoises are set to wake up from brumation ...

PHOENIX (KVOA) - The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) is seeking homes for over 100 non-releasable desert tortoises. With these tortoises soon waking from brumation, the AZGFD encourages ...

Tiffany Emanuel holds her pet tortoise, Myrtle, in Kokomo, Miss., on Thursday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates)(Sophie Bates / AP) KOKOMO, Miss. (AP) — Myrtle, a cherished pet tortoise ...

Fran Robinson, who works for CALM, said that the tortoise has been part of the CALM logo since it was formed in 1984 and aims to give hope to affected families that "slow and steady will win the ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time parents. In an announcement on Friday ...

On an atoll dominated by giant tortoises, the real work of ecosystem engineering begins at the back end of this slow-moving grazer. Aldabra’s tortoises—much like elephants—alter the ...

The sex of tortoise hatchlings is influenced by temperature, so the zoo incubated eight eggs below 28° Celsius (82.4° Fahrenheit) to produce males and the other eggs above 29.5°C (85.1°F ...

KOKOMO, Miss. — (AP) — Myrtle, a cherished pet tortoise, has been reunited with its family in Mississippi weeks after disappearing during a deadly tornado outbreak in March. “He’s been ...