Sonoran desert tortoises have emerged from hibernation this spring, and many of them are in need of a place to call home. Arizona Game and Fish is offering free adoptions of these captive reptiles ...

PHOENIX (AP) — They’re not fluffy, they don’t play fetch and they certainly don’t roll over. But there is such a thing as a lap tortoise. What’s more, pet tortoises can wag their tails, will plod on ...

Desert tortoises — the iconic reptile of the Mojave Desert — face plenty of dangers in the wild that scientists say pose long-term threats to the species: ravens, humans and climate change, to name a ...

A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin has received a new federal designation that advocates hope will help protect vulnerable wildlife like the Mojave ...

Here’s how you know a desert tortoise when you see one: It’s the thing that looks like it couldn’t possibly survive in the desert. They lumber along with these piston legs, like a stepstool that’s got ...

Before they could find their new homes in the Southern Nevada desert, they first had to take a bath. No, this wasn’t some new hoop that prospective homebuyers have to jump through in Las Vegas’ ...

As they work to give tortoise hatchlings a head start at life and boost the wild population, staff at The Living Desert have a few pieces of advice for anyone hoping to protect desert tortoises in any ...

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Ravens are extremely successful, adaptable, opportunistic birds whose population has exploded in the Mojave over the last 60 years. This has been bad news for the desert tortoise. The solution to this ...

To the editor: The most hopeful aspect of reporter Louis Sahagun’s article about the fast decline in desert tortoise populations was The Times’ choice to put it on the front page. What happens to ...

PHOENIX — They’re not fluffy, they don’t play fetch and they certainly don’t roll over. But there is such a thing as a lap tortoise. Dotty the desert tortoise climbs into the lap of Seyda Robertson in ...

PHOENIX — They’re not fluffy, they don’t play fetch and they certainly don’t roll over. But there is such a thing as a lap tortoise. What’s more, pet tortoises can wag their tails, will plod on up to ...