In the quiet of his Westminster backyard, Dean Pennington tends to his oldest housemates, Belle, Leonardo, Toby and Keith, on a daily basis. The four tortoises, each around 40 years old, have shared ...

Kayla Elefson set a ladder down with a dull clank. Above her hung bushels and bushels of cured garlic. Elefson snipped the bulbs from their stalks, and Eric Elefson joined, reaching high with a pair ...

In the Cayman Islands, sea turtles are more than just a majestic creature. The animal appears on the islands’ flag, is the mascot of the British territory’s flagship airline and is printed on the $5 ...

For such a slow-moving animal, Clem the turtle has lived a fast life. The alligator snapping turtle has spent his 22 years bouncing from Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland to Lewisburg to a home in Mifflinburg ...

A 4-year-old donkey found wandering in Chatham County was auctioned off after no owner came forward to claim him. Pittsboro-based nonprofit Turtle Pants Farm secured a winning bid to claim the donkey.

NEW BEDFORD, Ohio -- A box turtle believed to be more than 100 years old has been found in an Ohio cornfield. The Times-Reporter of New Philadelphia reports (http ...

When Angela Tedesco founded Turtle Farm outside of Granger in 1995, she had to explain to her potential customers and just about everyone else what community-supported agriculture was all about. On ...

A move by the federal government to protect an inland turtle that lives in freshwater and wetlands mainly west of the Cascades is drawing support from thousands of environmentalists but opposition ...