ALTADENA, Calif. -- A family in Altadena, California, is rejoicing after their 100-pound pet tortoise was found amid the ...

For families with kids, there’s an extra benefit of the brumation process, says Lynda Misiak, who administers the desert tortoise permit process in California. “The tortoise is awake ...

But in some patches of California desert, their numbers have dropped ... beneath raven nests on power poles and see piles of dead baby tortoises that were opened, killed, carried to the nests ...

SAN FRANCISCO— A judge has rejected federal agencies’ approval of activities in the California Desert Conservation Area, including a vast network of off-road vehicle routes in the West Mojave Desert.

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 ...

But in some patches of California desert, their numbers have dropped ... beneath raven nests on power poles and see piles of dead baby tortoises that were opened, killed, carried to the nests ...

But in some patches of California desert, their numbers have dropped ... beneath raven nests on power poles and see piles of dead baby tortoises that were opened, killed, carried to the nests ...