Usually, one must wait in frustratingly long lines to see the treasures of the Tower of London. But a delightfully zany and touching novel, “The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise,” by the British ...

GENESEE COUNTY, MI - A chinchilla twitched its nose as wide-eyed and excited children began petting its fluffy body and bushy tail. This was the first of several exotic animal encounters that ...

SAGINAW TWP, MI — Walk into Custom Creatures, Saginaw Township’s new exotic pet store, and you’ll be greeted by the shop’s dome-shelled mascot Tara. That is, if the surprisingly swift sulcata tortoise ...

It’s not as weird as what the folks working at San Antonio’s Animal Care Services have dealt with lately. Just this week, they’ve picked up a tortoise, a goat and a python on city streets, according ...