With the Northern Corridor Highway approved in Southern Utah, some of Utah's slower and smaller residents could be affected: ...

An officer rushed to save a baby creature that was spotted wandering around an Arizona dog park. A woman found the small tortoise Monday, Sept. 18, in Oro Valley, the local police department said in a ...

The diminutive Karoo dwarf tortoise may play a key role in seed dispersal of plant species in its semidesert habitat in South Africa, a new study finds. A germination trial showed the tortoises ...

What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – All sorts of animals can be found inside the Desert Reef and Exotics shop along Eubank. From rabbits, and snakes, to all shapes and sizes of tortoises. But one small ...

Dogs are five times more effective than humans at this type of search and "also help us find the smaller tortoises which are often overlooked. A critically endangered Geometric tortoise walks through ...

What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...

After a female tortoise is fertilized, she undergoes several changes. After mating, the female tortoise will carry eggs for weeks to months, depending on the species. As the female tortoise gets ...