With its intricate, patterned shell, the near-threatened Karoo tent tortoise is a unique and hard-to-find resident of South ...

With no humans or large carnivores to contend with, giant tortoises with shells measuring over a metre long would have roamed the islands alongside other species around a tenth of their size. Although ...

The sheer number of species that rely on a gopher tortoise burrow for survival, roughly 365, and the diversity of creatures sharing the burrow is astounding. Also, how deep, long and sturdy the ...

Hingeback tortoises are perhaps the most carnivorous of all known tortoise species. The Homes’s hingeback tortoise is unfortunately listed as critically endangered, much more endangered than any ...

In all, the Turner Endangered Species Fund and its partners have been able to grow the population from 30 tortoises to about 800, said Chris Wiese, who leads the project at the Armendaris Ranch.

In all, the Turner Endangered Species Fund and its partners have been able to grow the population from 30 tortoises to about 800, said Chris Wiese, who leads the project at the Armendaris Ranch.

Yet despite its vulnerability, the gopher tortoise is considered a keystone species; its burrows — both active and abandoned ...