The world's oldest tortoise has turned 191 years old, extending his title of the oldest living land animal by another year. The Seychelles giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa), known as ...

The South Atlantic island of St. Helena is celebrating the birthday of the world's oldest living land animal -- a Seychelles giant tortoise called Jonathan, who is turning 190. The South Atlantic ...

It is important for all of us to get out and see the world. The same is true of our animal companions. Just take this adorable tortoise, for example. Oh, and this tortoise goes by the name of Tiptoe, ...

Lookin’ good for an almost-double-centenarian. Jonathan the tortoise, the world’s oldest land animal, turned 190 over the weekend on the island of St. Helena where he enjoyed a “cake” of seasonal ...

While world wars raged, empires rose and fell, and the world as we know it began to take form, a creature on a remote island unknowingly lived through it all. Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise, ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Thousands of critically endangered tortoises were swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for their lives after ...

For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise family.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for their lives ...

SAN ANTONIO – One of the largest tortoise species in the world will soon call SeaWorld San Antonio home. The Aldabra tortoise is found naturally on Aldabra Island, one of the Seychelles islands in the ...

He's lived through both World Wars, seven British monarchs, 39 U.S. presidents and is older than the Eiffel Tower – and now, Jonathan the tortoise is celebrating another year around the sun as he ...