What Snake Holes in Your Yard Actually Look Like, And Which Ones to Worry AboutSnakes do not dig their own burrows, instead utilizing tunnels made by other animals. Identifying these "borrowed homes" involves looking f...
What Scientists Found Inside a Cave in Texas After 100,000 YearsResearchers exploring a flooded cave near San Antonio discovered 100,000-year-old fossils of giant ground sloths, mammoths, camels, and Hol...
Where is tortoise Jonathan, world's oldest living land animal? How to go and see him?A wave of online attention recently surrounded Jonathan, the world’s oldest known land animal, after a viral post triggered widespread disc...
Thais send smuggled tortoises home to Tanzania as evidence against suspected wildlife traffickersMore than a hundred baby tortoises, mostly dead, have been returned to Tanzania from Thailand as evidence in a wildlife smuggling case. The...
Guardian newspaper confirms sale of Sunday sister paper The Observer to Tortoise MediaThe Guardian's owner, the Scott Trust, has sold the Observer, the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, to Tortoise Media. The deal includes a f...
Biologists in slow and steady race to help North America's largest and rarest tortoise speciesThe US wildlife officials have reached an agreement with Ted Turner's Endangered Species Fund to release more Bolson tortoises on the media...
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Fintech firm Tortoise raises undisclosed sum in funding from cofounders of Swiggy, ZestMoneyTortoise had earlier raised around $2.3 million this year from Vertex Ventures, a part of global investment firm Temasek.
Savings firm Tortoise hires Nikhil Joy as cofounderFounded in 2021 by Vardhan Koshal and Surya Harsha Nunnaguppala, Tortoise is a fintech app that encourages saving up for large purchases. T...
Fintech startup Tortoise raises $2.3 million in funding led by Vertex VenturesThis is Tortoise's second round of funding in the last 12 months. The startup has raised a total capital of $3 million to date.
Meet Diego, the 100-year-old young tortoise who became father to 800 little onesHe has almost single-handedly saved his own species.
Tortoise species new to India discovered in Arunachal jungle
Two giant Aldabra tortoises gifted to Nehru Zoological park"A pair of giant Aldabra tortoises (male and female) which is endemic to Seychelles, both aged about 20 years, was received from Raymond A ...
Two held at Chennai airport for trying to smuggle 200 star tortoisesAs many as 200 star tortoises were seized at the Chennai airport on Thursday while they were being smuggled to Kuala Lumpur.
All is not well with the star tortoises of Sri Kurmam TempleThe Srikurmam temple in Srikakulam, which is the only temple in south India dedicated to the Kurmam (tortoise) avatar of Lord Vishnu, may h...
60 tortoises seized from air passenger in ChennaiCustoms officials at Chennai airport on Saturday seized 60 star tortoises from a 35-year-old man who was trying to smuggle them to Bangkok ...
950 star tortoises seized from air passenger in ChennaiStar tortoises, an endangered species, have been seized by the Customs officials from a passenger of a flight bound for Bangkok via Colombo...