>> WESH 2 NEWS CONTINUES. STEWART: IT’S ONE OF THE BTES PARTS OF LIVING IN FLORIDA. FROM MANATEES TO SEA TURTLES, OUR STATE IS FILLED WITH ANIMALS, AND AS WE KNOW, SOME OF THEM ARE ENDANGERED.

It would be a memorable sight. But it would also be so wrong to tip over Galápagos giant tortoises to see how shell shape affects their efforts to leg-pump, neck-stretch and rock right-side up again.

LaMOURE, N.D. - The African sulcata tortoise that turned up on the edge of a field on Ben Nelson's farm near here was a long way from home. Nelson spotted the tortoise, which he first thought was a ...

Discover how Galapagos tortoises self-righting abilities differ between shell types, impacting their survival. Chiari and her colleagues used 3D shell reconstructions of 89 adult tortoises–three ...

THE ACREAGE, Fla. (AP) — Lenard Hughes has a small statue of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, watching over his small menagerie in the home he shares with his wife Roseanne in The ...

EUSTIS — Volunteers tidying up the community on Tuesday came across a horrific sight: more than a dozen gopher tortoise shells in the woods with holes apparently drilled into them. They found the ...