April 10th, Floridians are invited to ‘shell-I-brate’ Gopher Tortoise Day. Gopher tortoises are found in all 67 counties in ...

After Hurricane Helene devastated Florida’s coast, gopher tortoise populations unexpectedly surged in one area.

Gopher tortoises are disappearing from Florida, primarily because of habitat destruction that's often tied to residential development. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission via Flickr ...

Happy Gopher Tortoise Day. Gopher tortoises are found in all 67 Florida counties and are frequently seen in neighborhoods, ...

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 ...

With populations spanning all 67 counties, gopher tortoises are far too busy as Florida’s only native tortoise species for ...

The group of young tortoises spent their early life in a headstart program operated by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at ...

But something stood out in the rubble: Where the sea and shore met, in the shallow waves, there was a tannish-brown gopher tortoise. And then another. And another. “That’s odd,” Harshbarger ...

FOX 13's Kailey Tracy explains that the tortoises were recently relocated from Egmont Key by the force of Hurricane Helene's Storm Surge.