NAPLES, Fla. (WFLA) — Two gopher tortoises, found spray-painted blue and pink, were taken to receive treatment from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida this week. The first gopher tortoise was found ...

PALO VERDE, Calif. — After seven years in the Marine Corps, Sgt. Johnnie White of Newark, N.J., has a new skill: tortoise spotting. White is among 30 noncommissioned officers ordered to make sure no ...

Eleanor Sterling happened to be visiting the Galápagos Islands on June 24, 2012, the day Lonesome George died. George, the last of a species of giant tortoise unique to Pinta Island, had become an ...

In 2012, Lonesome George—the last Pinta tortoise, or Chelonoidis abingdonii—passed away at the age of 100 in a conservation facility in the Galapagos Islands. While the beloved giant tortoise and his ...

By Stephanie Springer - bio | email ALBANY, GA (WALB) –A private plane took off from Albany's airport today with some unusual passengers; four Gopher Tortoises. A flight instructor volunteered his ...

It's a 106-degree Fahrenheit day in the Mojave Desert. Heat devils dance off chocolate-hued Clark Mountain on the horizon. Air-conditioned cars zip along Interstate 15 toward Las Vegas. And inside a ...

SAN JOSE — A man convicted of drunkenly trespassing at a preschool and injuring a beloved pet tortoise with a wooden post nearly two years ago will have to undergo court-ordered mental health ...