The remains of an ancient tortoise in Pompeii Courtesy of Archaeological Park of Pompeii Nearly 2,000 years ago, a pregnant tortoise took refuge in an abandoned home in Pompeii. But then Mount ...

The discovery of ancient tortoise and turtle fossils had led scientists to conclude that parts of the Andes were less than a mile in altitude about 13 million years ago. A five-foot-long shell from an ...

The floor of Bender’s Cave looked like a graveyard. Fossils spread across the submerged stream bed in every direction, packed tightly enough that paleontologist John Moretti could barely move without ...

Today, Aldabra Atoll, an island in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar and Tanzania, is a predator-free paradise for more than 100,000 giant tortoises. Gone are the seafarers who over-hunted them to near ...