It is difficult to watch. A sound-asleep tortoise is stuck in her home as it erupts into flames. Thanks to the fact that she kept her wits about her, this tortoise escaped an inferno. But everything c ...

Tortoises can be fast when they need to be!

Scientists predict that the last female tortoise on the island of Golem Grad in North Macedonia will die in 2083 ...

The tortoise saves itself in this one. Watch the terrestrial reptile make a hasty exit after a shed fire broke out on Super ...

The quick escape of a stereotypically slow reptile from a shed fire is getting attention on social media. Leo, a female tortoise, tapped into her speedy side to flee flames that engulfed her backyard ...

On a remote island in North Macedonia, male Hermann’s tortoises outnumber females 19 to 1, an imbalance driving the population to extinction.

Leo the tortoise escaped from her enclosure during a fire while her owners were away at a Super Bowl party, and footage of the escape went viral on TikTok.

A California family’s pet tortoise made a slow-speed getaway that was somehow just fast enough to escape a massive shed fire that broke out when a heat lamp tipped over. Leo, a 3-year-old female ...

A giant tortoise species believed extinct for more than a century has been formally confirmed alive. Genetic analysis published in 2022 established that a female tortoise found on Fernandina Island in ...

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A tortoise showed off its surprising speed when a fire broke out in her shed in the backyard of a Fullerton home on Sunday, ...

A pet tortoise escaped a fire that destroyed the shed she lives in after a heat lamp fell and ignited her enclosure in Orange County.