For Brenda Bush, assistant director at Pflugerville-based Central Texas Tortoise Rescue, this is business as usual. In the past twelve months, the nonprofit has rescued nearly 150 lost tortoises ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The weather is warmer, and it is now getting into that time of year where you might see some more turtles or tortoises roaming around. Red-eared sliders, river cooters, three ...

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A 180-pound Texas tortoise who broke out of his backyard last month has been reunited with his owner. Gabriel Fernandez, who owns Lorenzo the tortoise, told USA TODAY on Friday that his beloved ...

The elusive Texas tortoise is slow, brown, and shaped like a rock—all traits that make this small, rare reptile tough to spot as it scoots through the dense Tamaulipan thornscrub of the Rio ...

So how fast can a determined tortoise go? Fast enough to make a quick getaway from their owners. We read this week in Texas Monthly that tortoise escapes are surprisingly frequent in that state in ...

Nobody ever said turtles worked quickly. Though it took him nearly a century, the 90-year-old radiated tortoise known as Mr. Pickles is finally a dad. The Houston Zoo announced on Thursday that he ...

I was going crazy.” Apparently, their African spurred tortoise had hitched a ride on a big black dually to a ranch in Hico, Texas, nearly 50 miles southwest of their home. The tortoise had ...

Red-eared sliders, river cooters, three-toed box turtles and the Texas tortoise are native to the Central Texas area, said Brenda Bush with the Central Texas Tortoise Rescue. KXAN’s Tom Miller ...

I was going crazy.” Apparently, their African spurred tortoise had hitched a ride with a gentleman and her girlfriend on a big black Ford dually to a ranch in Hico, Texas, nearly 50 miles ...