Arizona wildlife officials are encouraging residents to consider adopting a desert tortoise, as dozens of animals wait for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildlife Hospital and Conservation Center staff care for desert tortoise hatchlings Thursday at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two hundred desert tortoises in Arizona are in search of homes, the state’s Game and Fish Department said. Many Arizonans may not immediately think to adopt a Sonoran desert tortoise instead of a dog ...

What has four scaly legs and spends 90% of its life underground? It could be your new pet. The Arizona Game and Fish Department’s desert tortoise adoption program began last week with more than 300 ...

I never imagined that closing dumpsters could help save an endangered species, but that's exactly what I learned during my time at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. What started as a volunteer ...

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 ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service proposal would ease permitting for projects that could harm the threatened species in an area with significant development possibilities. A long-awaited conservation plan ...

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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 ...