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 ...

While tucked away in her South Florida burrow, Grumpy Gertrude is ready to ram anyone who approaches too closely—including the biologists who study her. The 14-year-old gopher tortoise is a favorite ...

WINDSOR — As wildlife releases go, it wasn’t a dramatic event. There weren’t any flapping wings or flippers churning through the crashing surf. Instead, after being placed in front of a burrow made ...

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In the world of animal conservation, head-starting is a technique used by experts to prevent threatened species from inching closer to extinction. This procedure involves raising said animals in ...

Athens, Ga. - Research from the University of Georgia indicates that head-starting--raising a species in captivity and releasing it into a protected habitat after it has grown large enough to be less ...

Happy birthday, Janus! The Natural History Museum in Geneva, Switzerland threw a birthday party for the two-headed tortoise they’ve raised since birth. He was named after the Roman God Janus, who is ...

Ahead of the Indianapolis 500, the Indianapolis Zoo held what it refers to as "the greatest spectacle in tortoise racing" — though the contestants on the track were a lot slower than the race cars ...

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 ...