Mojave desert tortoises wander across roads while searching for food, water and mates, putting them in the path of vehicles.

Sonoran desert tortoises have emerged from hibernation this spring, and many of them are in need of a place to call home. Arizona Game and Fish is offering free adoptions of these captive reptiles ...

PHOENIX (AP) — They’re not fluffy, they don’t play fetch and they certainly don’t roll over. But there is such a thing as a lap tortoise. What’s more, pet tortoises can wag their tails, will plod on ...

A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin has received a new federal designation that advocates hope will help protect vulnerable wildlife like the Mojave ...

Desert tortoises — the iconic reptile of the Mojave Desert — face plenty of dangers in the wild that scientists say pose long-term threats to the species: ravens, humans and climate change, to name a ...

Here’s how you know a desert tortoise when you see one: It’s the thing that looks like it couldn’t possibly survive in the desert. They lumber along with these piston legs, like a stepstool that’s got ...

As they work to give tortoise hatchlings a head start at life and boost the wild population, staff at The Living Desert have a few pieces of advice for anyone hoping to protect desert tortoises in any ...

Before they could find their new homes in the Southern Nevada desert, they first had to take a bath. No, this wasn’t some new hoop that prospective homebuyers have to jump through in Las Vegas’ ...

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What has four scaly legs and spends 90% of its life underground? It could be your new pet. The Arizona Game and Fish Department’s desert tortoise adoption program began last week with more than 300 ...

PHOENIX — They’re not fluffy, they don’t play fetch and they certainly don’t roll over. But there is such a thing as a lap tortoise. Dotty the desert tortoise climbs into the lap of Seyda Robertson in ...

Associated Press Tuesday, May 23, 2023 9:08 a.m. | Tuesday, May 23, 2023 9:08 a.m. PHOENIX — They’re not fluffy, they don’t play fetch and they certainly don’t roll over. But there is such a thing as ...