An Arizona family's adoption of a desert tortoise highlights a growing effort to place captive reptiles in secure homes.

The United States Bureau of Land Management approved a new gold mine project near Wickenburg. The project raised environmental concerns regarding water usage, potential groundwater contamination and ...

Three-plus years after its unveiling at AREA15, a sculpture of a desert tortoise crafted by local artist Luis Valera-Rico from electronics donated at Goodwill stores found a new home on June 19 at the ...

C A I R O, Egypt, Aug. 31 -- A tortoise laboriously pulls itself up toa thorny shrub in the arid desert, slowly plucking at theplant ’ s stems in an attempt to suck out any moisture.

“The long-term survival of the Sonoran desert tortoise is severely threatened by ever-increasing losses of habitat due to development and other unmitigated uses, and by ever-increasing drought ...

After nearly four years of residence at Area 15, Pikai the desert tortoise sculpture will now call the Las Vegas Natural History Museum home thanks to Goodwill of Southern Nevada.

Two kids fell from a moving pick-up truck at Lake Pleasant's Desert Tortoise Campground around 3 p.m. on June 5, authorities said. There's no word on what led to the kids falling out of the truck.

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — After nearly four years of residence at Area 15, Pikai the desert tortoise sculpture will now call the Las Vegas Natural History Museum home thanks to Goodwill of Southern Nevada.