Species: Desert tortoise About: Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene ... of miles to the nesting beaches where they lay eggs.

“There's gonna be a lot of areas where landowners destroy habitat without any benefit to the species.” That could include Preble’s meadow jumping mice in Colorado, desert tortoises in the ... Wyoming ...

It took nearly 100 years for a duo of endangered Philadelphia Zoo tortoises to become parents and the "Golden" moment is now ...

The names Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia pay tribute to the ladies of "The Golden Girls." More than 13,000 people voted for the names. Their nearly 100-year-old mother, named "Mommy", made ...

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 ...

(WPHL) — For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise family. The zoo officially debuted four critically endangered ...

For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise ...

Adopting a Sonoran Desert tortoise. Since 1981, the Arizona Game and Fish Department has facilitated a program to allow Arizona residents to adopt the tortoises, which are a protected species and ...

with Mommy becoming the oldest known first-time mother of her species. The arrival of the hatchlings is a big deal as Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises are critically endangered in the wild ...