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Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene. In the early years of the 20th century, they still thrived within the Southwest's arid ...

A casualty of the Eaton fire was the destruction of the Eaton Canyon Nature Center in Pasadena, which lost 15 animals who ...

The desert tortoise was added to the endangered species list in 1990. Shortly after, grazing permits were restricted or rescinded in DWMA zones across Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California.

For desert tortoises to emerge from brumation, temperatures need to level out and overnight lows need to warm up. Max’s current burrow is also deep in the ground — so deep, in fact ...

That is, except for the two most popular animals at the center that survived the fire: A pair of aging, slow-moving, desert tortoises named Clyde and Clementine. You might say they slept through it.