Arizona Game and Fish Department officials this week are reminding residents to leave wild tortoises alone. In Arizona, ...

Las Cruces - Fossilised remains of a turtle believed to have lived in a swampy environment tens of millions of years ago were recovered from a desert location in New Mexico.

Wally’s Desert Turtle has been a desert staple for decades.The elegant restaurant opened its doors in 1978 when owner Wally Botello decided he wanted to create a fine dining experience in the ...

It may not be surprising that an "aquatic desert" turtle faces long odds in life, but environmentalists and biologists still welcomed this week's endangered species designation for the Sonoyta mud ...

Q:I really love bamboo palms (Chamaedora erumpens), but despite my best efforts, they start slowly dying as soon as I bring them home. The leaves slowly, relentlessly turn brown and dry out. I ...

In the desert, British and Italian tanks and armored cars scuttled in and out of the oases, “islands of the blessed,” in the modern version of Lawrence of Arabia’s strike-and-run stratagem ...

Wally's Desert Turtle in Rancho Mirage was the location for PSWIFT's (Palm Springs Women in Film & Television) holiday get-together on Dec. 13. The evening was also a tribute to Patti Gribow.

In Chile, a writer takes a road trip through one of the world’s driest places — a landscape that preserves remnants of the dead. The Valley of Mars in the Atacama Desert, with the Andes in the ...