Conservationists are using new technology to study what eats the slow-moving critters–and then tricking those predators into stopping. A team in the South Western U.S. is using 3-D printed tortoise ...

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If you happen to be wandering the Mojave Desert and come across a desert tortoise, don’t poke around the critter too closely—you could end up covered with a surprise spray of artificial grape fluid.

A tortoise in Brazil just received a unique gift: a 3D printed shell. The tortoise, named Fred, was found with 85% of its shell burnt in a forest fire. The group who came to Fred’s rescue, called the ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil (KTVU) - A badly burned tortoise now has a new lease on life after she was outfitted with a 3D printed shell to replace the one severely damaged in a fire. The animal rescue group ...

GOLDEN, CO. -- When Cleopatra the leopard tortoise was sent to Canyon Critter Reptile Rescue in Golden, she was in pretty rough shape. Poor nutrition can lead to "pyramiding" shells. Instead of a ...

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 ...