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 ...

Eighteen of those genera, and about 49 species, belong to the tortoise family. The main difference between the two is their modes of life: All tortoises are terrestrial whereas other types of ...

Plus, keeping your tortoise's water dish filled at all times will add humidity. Reptile-safe mulch, aspen wood shavings, and dirt mixtures are good substrate (or bedding) options for Greek tortoises.

“All of us are very proud,” said Emily Thomas ... There are two desert tortoise species in the Southwest: the Sonoran, which is most common east and south of the Colorado River, and the ...

The river’s vertebrate wildlife includes all the fish species in the water and birds in the air too. But there are also frogs, salamanders, turtles, alligators, snakes and lizards along with our ...

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

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 ...

Across the board, all types of turtles showed high longevity and extremely low aging rates. That doesn’t necessarily clash with the high aging rates that Colchero and da Silva found in two speci ...

illegal marijuana grows and development of massive solar farms are all pushing the species to the brink. The tortoises live in the rocky foothills north and west of the Colorado River in ...

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 ...

resource management plans and other conservation coalitions to help conserve this keystone species.” But not all agree that the tortoise is on solid enough ground to remove federal protections ...