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Aquatic setups and land pens, diet, and long‑term care planning.
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Moment thief steals tortoise from pet shop after picking it up and stuffing it into his coat pocket
4+ hour, 6+ min ago (586+ words) By OLIVIA DAY, ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR, AUSTRALIA This is the moment a man brazenly steals a tortoise from a pet shop by stuffing it into his coat pocket. The alleged thief was captured on CCTV walking into Preston Exotic Pets…...
Institute for Marine Mammal Studies tracks turtles to understand pier hookings
6+ hour, 4+ min ago (380+ words) GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) — The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies (IMMS) in Gulfport is trying to determine why sea turtles keep getting hooked at piers. The organization is tracking turtles with tags to study the behavior. IMMS’s Dr. Forrest Collins said…...
California Tortoise Goes Viral After Riding BART Across San Francisco
16+ hour, 6+ min ago (209+ words) Meet Sherman, the 55-pound sulcata tortoise who’s treating Bay Area public transit like his personal stage — and somehow making it look cool. “Everywhere he goes, he gets a reaction,” Tsai explained. “People drop whatever they’re doing, and then they just…...
Rescued turtles return home after NSW government cut flows to wetland
9+ hour, 45+ min ago (639+ words) Environmental water to the area was halted after a complaint from a private landholder, leading to the deaths of wildlife and sheep Freshwater turtles rescued from a dried-up water hole in western New South Wales after the state government cut…...
Giant Tortoises Outnumber People in Seychelles After New Population Estimate
12+ hour, 28+ min ago (514+ words) Giant tortoises on Seychelles’ remote Aldabra Atoll may be far more numerous than earlier estimates suggested. Researchers calculated that the atoll holds almost 183,000 adult and subadult tortoises, exceeding the country’s human population. The result offers encouraging evidence about one of…...
Shell yeah! Once-endangered giant tortoises population hits 180k – a record high
14+ hour, 5+ min ago (456+ words) A once-endangered giant tortoise population is now thriving on a Seychelles atoll, with over 180 000 recorded. The highest population for the species yet. The Aldabra giant tortoise was once hunted to fewer than 1 000. Now, a new survey has estimated that 183 000 adult…...
Arizona firefighters responded to 1,100 snake-related calls as summer heat drove snakes to homes
15+ hour, 29+ min ago (382+ words) Summer can bring a much faster pace, with one shift reaching its fourth snake run by 10 a.m. and its sixth before noon. Fountain Hills firefighters in Arizona handled six snake calls before noon during a single summer shift as heat pushed…...
Could a 194-year-old tortoise hold the key to human longevity?
17+ hour, 47+ min ago (364+ words) Ynetnews Jonathan, a giant tortoise from the Seychelles, has spent most of his life on St Helena, a British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean, on the grounds of the island governor's residence He arrived from the Seychelles 144 years ago…...
World’s oldest tortoise could hold biological key to slowing human ageing
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (595+ words) Jonathan, the Aldabra giant tortoise, has long baffled biologists WATCH: Angela Rippon champions animals who served See the latest from GB News here. DNA from the planet's oldest known land animal could reveal genetic secrets that may shed light on…...
Florida sea turtle hatchlings veer into a storm drain, and rescuers guide them back to the Gulf
19+ hour, 22+ min ago (484+ words) This incident is a sign of how vulnerable sea turtles are in the earliest moments of life. In Florida, a group of sea turtle hatchlings wound up in a storm drain instead of reaching the Gulf. Images released by Treasure…...