On a remote island in North Macedonia, male Hermann’s tortoises outnumber females 19 to 1, an imbalance driving the population to extinction.

Scientists predict that the last female tortoise on the island of Golem Grad in North Macedonia will die in 2083 ...

Sexual aggression displayed by male tortoises is both physically and mentally hampering female tortoises on the island of ...

A new study suggests that sexual aggression may be the reason why female tortoises walk off cliffs. The researchers behind ...

The animal kingdom is filled with strange behaviours that many humans are unable to understand, but now boffins have ...

A female Hermann's tortoise on the uninhabited island escapes through the exit to avoid males during an enclosure experiment /Dragan Arsovski Tourists and biologists have for years witnessed a “rare” ...

A heart-stopping moment as a small tortoise manages to narrowly escape traffic in a busy area. Rock the Country festival: Artists dropping out amid Kid Rock controversy Jutta Leerdam, Jake Paul's ...

I see the manure sellers as part of some lost and deeply English tradition, which is why I prefer my wife to deal with them I am in the kitchen watching the dog and the cat fight when the tortoise ...

A surprise family member – a sweet, youthful tortoise – is staving off my maternal hunger pangs after our human offspring recently decamped It feels pathetic to admit this, but I’m still a bit ...

Riaan Manser visited St Helena for a week – an island with an overwhelming “sense of place”, the most unique rock pool he’s ever seen named after Lot and his wife – and met a 194-year-old tortoise ...

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