Meet Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia, named after the main characters in the beloved 80s sitcom The Golden Girls. The zoo held a vote on social media after the hatchlings made their public debut to ...

Meet Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia, named after the main characters in the beloved 80s sitcom The Golden Girls. The zoo held a vote on social media after the hatchlings made their public debut to ...

Clark County officials confirm Mojave Max is still hibernating due to cooler, windy weather, with a motion-activated camera ...

Mojave Max, Clark County’s own weather prognosticator and mascot for the Clark County Desert Conservation Program, has not ...

PHOENIX (KVOA) - The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) is seeking homes for over 100 non-releasable desert tortoises. With these tortoises soon waking from brumation, the AZGFD encourages ...

A rare Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise ... oldest known first-time mother of her species, according to the Philadelphia Zoo. The father of the four new hatchlings is slightly younger at 96.

The transfer was part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Species Survival ... have so far resulted in four hatchlings, all of them female. The sex of tortoise hatchlings is influenced ...

Currently, there are fewer than 50 of these tortoises in captivity in zoos throughout the United States. Due to their endangered species, the process of hatching these hatchlings is not only a ...

Why Trust Us? A tortoise named Mommy just became the oldest first-time parent of her species at an estimated 100 years old. The four hatchlings are all from the female incubation batch.

"These four hatchlings, it's everywhere in the news," she said. "And I think that's amazing to think about." The population of this tortoise species began to decline in the early 1800s when ...