LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - They are a protected under the federal government’s Endangered Species Act. The Desert Tortoise population is making a gradual comeback after it’s population dropped by as ...

As monsoon rains bring much needed water to Arizona’s deserts, you may notice some of the state’s beloved shell-backed reptiles on the move. State wildlife officials have a message for those who may ...

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 ...

More than 50 displaced, federally protected tortoises are back where they belong after scientists Wednesday relocated them to the desert outside Boulder City. Clark County’s Desert Conservation ...

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 ...

SCOTTSDALE — Sonoran desert tortoises are built for the desert. With their short legs and tough shell, they slowly but skillfully traverse Arizona’s rocky terrain and, like goats, can get to places ...

Ozzy the Desert Tortoise lives at the Lake Superior Zoo. He is about 42-years-old, which is about middle age for the species. Typically they’ll live to be about 40 or 50 years old, but there has been ...

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 ...