When I visit the Diversity of Birds exhibit at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo and spot the radiated tortoise, I think of the story of the tortoise and the hare. The radiated tortoise looks as though it ...

They're a quiet bunch, the hundreds of animals residing at the well-guarded botanical oasis in California's Ojai Valley. They've been brought to the Turtle Conservancy from countries around the world, ...

Tortoises may be saved from rustlers using a highly-unusual technique - conservationists defacing their shells. By so doing, the environmental activists hope to make them unattractive to those looking ...

The following is a script from "The Race to Save the Tortoise" which aired on Dec. 9, 2012. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Andrew Metz, producer. Not since the dinosaurs disappeared, have animals ...

She’s got a “beautiful soul” and an appetite to match. And, thanks to a few new friends, she’ll soon be walking on her own. Four mechanical engineering students at Washington State University dropped ...

The ploughshare tortoise's ornate golden shell makes it a popular black market pet. In California, the Turtle Conservancy is trying to give the... To Save Endangered Tortoises, Conservationists Deface ...