-- When traveling in Central America or the Caribbean, you may find hair accessories, bracelets and trinkets made from tortoise shell. Often, tortoise shell accessories are made from synthetic ...

An injured tortoise whose story of recovery has captivated a social media community is recovering with the continued help of a 3-D printed shell, and soon will be featured on an episode of a popular ...

Tim Shields has always been a reptile freak. And his favorite reptile is the tortoise. As a biologist, Shields spent 35 years tracking populations of desert tortoises in the Mojave Desert. “They’re ...