LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Red Rock Canyon has a new tortoise at its habitat, and there will be a public contest to name the shelled resident. Red Rock Canyon NCA Tortoise Habitat announced that Friends ...

The feds and environmental groups reignite a decades-long fight over how much development a conservation area — and the desert tortoise it was created to protect — can withstand as southwest Utah ...

Florida wildlife investigators have charged a man in connection with an animal abuse case in which a tortoise was found covered in red paint. They said Edwin Escalera, who works with a paint company, ...

The Bureau of Land Management recently reapproved the Northern Corridor, prompting plans to move tortoises that might find ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is looking for answers after they said a gopher tortoise was found near Orlando completely covered in what appears to be red spray paint, WKMG-TV ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Tank and Batman are red footed tortoises, and these shell covered critters are making big moves at a slow pace. Though they’re different sizes now, Eden Brickmeyer says they will ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...

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If you have Ring or Nextdoor, you’ve likely seen one of your neighbors reporting a lost, or found, tortoise in your community. Sarah Mortimer, executive director of Tortoise Group, Nevada’s sole ...