Tortoise Capital Resources Corp. agreed to sell its interest in a power transmission line for $7.7 million, the company announced on Friday.

"Many people ask why we don’t give him Viagra, but we need to let nature take its course." --Fausto Llerena, caretaker of the nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoise named Lonesome George. George ...

Several social media users joked the tortoise was moving faster than the trains A daring tortoise seen ambling along a railway line has been returned to its owner. The four-legged creature, called ...

Railway services were delayed between Stansted Airport and Norwich yesterday after a giant tortoise got onto the railway line.

A Lincolnshire vets said they have been “inundated” with calls about a “celebrity” tortoise which was rescued and brought to them. The reptile, which has been described as “a miracle ...

40 of Aesop's best-known fables are brought to life in adaptations for children aged 5 to 9. 1. The Hare and the Tortoise (read by the late Richard Briers). Each story is five minutes long and ...