“Hot on its heels is a seriously perturbed tortoise racing for the horizon in this Costa Rican forest.”

“The testudo, the tortoise formation, involved raising the scutums into a shell.”

“A randy tortoise is on the run after scaling a two-foot wall in search of a new partner after his mate of 38 years died.”

“But the related species of one extinct group, the glyptodonts, had a single-piece carapace similar to that of tortoises.”

“Molluscs, barnacles, mussels, oysters, tortoises, hedgehogs, armadillos, porcupines, rhinos all grow their own.”

“The goal is to conserve gopher tortoises by managing a conservation site of relocated tortoises and residents as a single viable population.”