"I once witnessed a leopard tortoise in South Africa swim right across a watering hole being used by elephants." Susan Tellem, co-founder of the American Tortoise Rescue nonprofit, explained that ...

Good morning. I'm David Greene. The National Mississippi River Museum announced last week that Cashew, the African leopard tortoise, had been stolen. Mysteriously, two days later Cashew turned up ...

but is significantly bigger than any tortoises in southern Africa today. Today, the leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis) is the largest tortoise species in the area. The record length for a ...

A leopard tortoise in Tswalu Kalahari Reserve in South Africa walked away peacefully without a scratch in its encounter with a couple of young, curious lions. Trevor Kleyn captured footage of the ...

Students in reading interventionist Michelle Forrest’s classes have spent the past few weeks writing and illustrating their book about Sheldon, an African leopard tortoise that was adopted by ...

Bertie is a South African leopard tortoise living at Adventure Valley, UK, and he’s far from your average slow mover. Bertie is a South African leopard tortoise living at Adventure Valley ...

A 100-year-old African tortoise named Biscuit has been reunited with his family after being rescued from a canal, according to the Parish of Ascension in Louisiana. A local animal control team ...

but is significantly bigger than any tortoises in southern Africa today. Today, the leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis) is the largest tortoise species in the area. The record length for a ...

Today, the leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis ... there was nothing to suggest the presence of very large tortoises from southern Africa in the region’s extensive archaeological record ...