GAINSVILLE, FLA – To improve my chances, and because wandering around sandy scrub at dawn yelling ‘tortoise, please’ isn’t a real strategy, I arranged to meet Katherine Saylor, the Southeastern ...

It was a relatively peaceful Sunday morning at the Fortin household in Scottsdale, Ariz. Around noon, though, chaos struck. Michelle Fortin was folding laundry, when her 10-year-old son, Kenton, ...

YUCCA VALLEY, Calif. (KABC) -- San Bernardino County firefighters came to the rescue of two puppies that got trapped in an underground tortoise den for hours. The curious pups got stuck in the hole in ...

A pair of puppies needed a hand from firefighters and animal rescuers after their curiosity got them trapped in an underground tortoise den. The 5-month-old puppies, Peo and Finn, got into the den — ...

While tucked away in her South Florida burrow, Grumpy Gertrude is ready to ram anyone who approaches too closely—including the biologists who study her. The 14-year-old gopher tortoise is a favorite ...

It was a relatively peaceful Sunday morning at the Fortin household in Scottsdale, Ariz. Around noon, though, chaos struck. Michelle Fortin was folding laundry, when her 10-year-old son, Kenton, ...