It is an unusual romance, to say the least. He is made of flesh, blood and shell while she is constructed entirely out of plastic.
But after years of heartache, Timmy the tortoise seems to have found some sort of comfort by teaming up with Tanya the plastic toy tortoise.
Timmy, a Hermann’s tortoise (Testudo hermanni), appears to dote on Tanya night and day since the pair were brought together by keepers at the sanctuary where he lives after he was “bullied” by other real tortoises.
The sprightly 60-year-old fetches her food (and …

Reptiles, amazingly, have been living on our planet for somewhere around 200 million years. Reptiles are commonly characterized by several features: they have lungs to breathe, they are vertebrates, which means they have a backbone and an internal skeleton, and they are covered with scales or plates of some kind. Reptiles are also considered “cold-blooded” which means that their bodies do not have a thermostat to maintain their temperature; they depend upon the ambient temperature of their environment for body heat.
There are almost 6000 species of reptiles, but the largest …

An Australian man will be putting his toilet seat down in the future after discovering a python almost twice his size curled up in the bowl.
Snake wrangler Chris Peberdy was called to a house in rural Virginia near Darwin in far northern Australia after the owner, Erik Rantzau, spotted a 3-metre-long (almost 10 feet) carpet python in his toilet.
Peberdy told Reuters: “It’s not unusual to find snakes of that size in the tropics but you don’t find usually them in toilets.
“He must have come up through a drain. He …