The 12,000 radiated and spider tortoises that were housed at the Lavavolo Tortoise Center faced a new and unexpected ordeal when Cyclone Dikeledi hit the southern part of the Indian Ocean island ...

A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises that were swept ...

Flood waters engulfed the sanctuary, and the tortoises — many of them mere whippersnappers in the tortoise world at about ...

A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises swept away from ...

British explorer Captain James Cook is believed to have given a radiated tortoise to the Tongan royal family as a gift in 1777. The tortoise reportedly died in 1966 at the age of 188. Radiated and ...

The community came together to save the reptiles (Lavavolo Tortoise Centre via AP) British explorer Captain James Cook is believed to have given a radiated tortoise to the Tongan royal family as a ...

The lives of four people intersect on a French-Polynesian island where they consider creating an ocean-based civilization ... An account of the explorer Captain James Cook’s ill-fated final ...

The community near the Lavavolo Tortoise Center in southern Madagascar pulled together to help the creatures who were left ...

Following the end of James May: Our Man in... and The Grand Tour last year, and May's new show James May and the Dull Men ...