The tortoise looked like Freddy Krueger before his new shell. — -- A tortoise has a second chance in life after a team of designers in Brazil custom-made a shell for the reptile, which was badly ...

3D printing has shown off its many different forms of use by means of helping animals, to producing a cost-efficient manufacturing process, to assisting those in the medical industry with transplants ...

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.

Giant Tortoise Getting a ‘Shell Rub’ at the Nashville Zoo Is Bringing on the Smiles originally appeared on PetHelpful. Just like us, animals enjoy a little pampering now and then. A soothing massage ...

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 ...

It would be a memorable sight. But it would also be so wrong to tip over Galápagos giant tortoises to see how shell shape affects their efforts to leg-pump, neck-stretch and rock right-side up again.

The following is a script from "The Race to Save the Tortoise" which aired on Dec. 9, 2012. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Andrew Metz, producer. Not since the dinosaurs disappeared, have animals ...

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 ...

Herman is a gopher tortoise that is recovering after he was hit by a car. Herman is missing pieces of his shell from the impact. He was taken in by The Ark Wildlife Care and Sanctuary, and their ...

Attention reptile-lovers, what do you call an animal that lives in a shell made of bone and keratin, shuffles along at a slow pace and lives on land? Any guesses? You may have off-handedly answered ...

The following is a script from "The Race to Save the Tortoise" which aired on Dec. 9, 2012, and was rebroadcast on July 14, 2013. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Andrew Metz, producer. Not since ...