LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A Las Vegas nonprofit wants to stop the backyard breeding of tortoises. Tortoise Group Board Chair, Laura Deitsch, says right now there are about 150,000 pet tortoises in the ...

ALBANY — Love is in the air for Georgia’s official state reptile, and female gopher tortoises are busy laying clutches of eggs outside their burrows. Although gopher tortoises currently seem to be ...

Simpson says she got 16-year-old Bono about 12 years ago from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum’s Tortoise Adoption Program. He had the run of the small, terraced backyard, but tended to hug the wall ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Desert tortoises are very popular throughout Southern Nevada. These reptiles are supposed to be out in the wild, but they are also pets to thousands of households. This may ...

A woman from California caught her pet tortoise chasing her new kitten on camera, and the internet users can't stop laughing at the reason behind this behavior. The poster, Kendall Marshall, told ...

The animals are also vulnerable to a range of deadly diseases such as upper respiratory illnesses and the shell disease cutaneous dyskeratosis, which softens their shells. Finally, as climate change ...

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

Turtles and tortoises are reptiles with hard, protective shells, but they differ significantly in habitat, anatomy, and lifestyle. Turtles are primarily aquatic or semi-aquatic, featuring streamlined ...

A federal judge has partly ruled in favor of environmental groups challenging what one called a vast "spaghetti" network of popular off-road vehicle routes in the Mojave Desert, which they charge are ...