A federal judge has prohibited off-road vehicle use in critical habitat for desert tortoises in California’s western Mojave ...

Butti is an old, rare Indian star tortoise. For 13 years he had been happily residing in The Loft of the Colorado-based Cheyenne Zoo, until one Sunday where he went missing. Unlike that New York media ...

While the average lifespan of North America's largest and most rare tortoise species is unknown, biologists have said it could span upward of a century. So saving the endangered species is a long game ...