Born in the 1880s, Gramma the Galapagos tortoise lived through world wars and pandemics while becoming a symbol of conservation.

ALBANY — Love is in the air for Georgia’s official state reptile, and female gopher tortoises are busy laying clutches of eggs outside their burrows. Although gopher tortoises currently seem to be ...

Environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the federal government over its recent reapproval of the Northern Corridor, continuing a decades-long saga over highway through desert tortoise habitat.

The animals are also vulnerable to a range of deadly diseases such as upper respiratory illnesses and the shell disease cutaneous dyskeratosis, which softens their shells. Finally, as climate change ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As monsoon rains bring much needed water to Arizona’s deserts, you may notice some of the state’s beloved shell-backed reptiles on ...

Six environmental and conservation groups are challenging the government's decision to move forward with a road project through a section of a conservation area in southwest Utah.

The Biden administration previously blocked the proposed 4.3-mile highway through the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area — ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sixteen critically endangered western Santa Cruz tortoises born to some very old parents got a slow walk and the red carpet treatment Wednesday at a Philadelphia Zoo event to show ...