As climate change and biodiversity loss make headlines, the Wild Kingdom host explains why young conservationists — and her ...

PINELLAS CO, Fla. — Fort De Soto Park was ravaged by hurricane Helene, leaving behind a trail of debris that took months to cleanup. During that cleanup, park officials noticed something had changed ...

A tortoise in narrowly escaped a blaze in its California home. Leo, a female sulcata tortoise, was forced to make a hasty exit when a fire broke out in her crib, or a shed in the backyard, on Super ...

FULLERTON, Calif. (KABC) -- A pet tortoise escaped a fire that destroyed the shed she lives in after a heat lamp fell and ignited her enclosure in Fullerton. The incident, which was partially captured ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tortoise showed off its surprising speed when a fire broke out in her shed in the backyard of a Fullerton home on Sunday, Feb. 8 ...

A tortoise showed off its surprising speed when a fire broke out in her shed in the backyard of a Fullerton home on Sunday, Feb. 8. Security footage shows the tortoise, named Leo, zooming to safety as ...

Off-roading is now off-limits on routes spanning 1 million acres of the western Mojave Desert after a six-year legal battle over whether adding thousands of miles of new dirt roads would harm the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sending Galapagos tortoises, including Gramma, to zoos across the United States was part of early efforts to preserve the species ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Nevada transportation officials have completed dozens of tunnels and what are called turnarounds, to protect the federally-protected Mojave desert tortoise population, which is ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. She moved slowly, as if time were something best savored. Visitors ...

San Diego’s “Queen of the Zoo” has died. Her name was Gramma, and she was a Galápagos tortoise whose 141 years of existence (give or take) included more than 20 presidents, two world wars and a pair ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galapagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has ...