The Bureau of Land Management was ordered to close down popular off-roading trails in parts of the Mojave in order to protect the imperiled desert tortoise.

Juvenile tortoises with Floreana ancestry were brought to their native island from the Galápagos National Park’s breeding ...

In this April 4, 2008 file photo, Marines wait for a desert tortoise to move off the road at the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) (CN ...

A baby gorilla climbs and explores its lush habitat with wide-eyed curiosity. Trump appointee threatens to arrest "law-abiding" gun owners Dine-and-dashers threatened with gun, choked by employees of ...

PINELLAS CO, Fla. — Fort De Soto Park was ravaged by hurricane Helene, leaving behind a trail of debris that took months to cleanup. During that cleanup, park officials noticed something had changed ...

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When you picture nighttime in a perfectly landscaped garden, chances are good that you imagine it lit. According to National Association of Homebuyers survey data, close to 90 percent of people find ...

If you were lucky enough to get a bag of ice melt, there are directions telling you how much to use, but there's some debate about when to put it on. "Most of the time on ice melt, they tell you ...

Riaan Manser visited St Helena for a week – an island with an overwhelming “sense of place”, the most unique rock pool he’s ever seen named after Lot and his wife – and met a 194-year-old tortoise ...