While the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) supports all forms of safe, responsible outdoor recreation, those who ...

This week’s Tanglewood Pet of the Week is full of slow-and-steady charm. Meet Cucumber, the red-footed tortoise, is anything but sluggish.

Las Vegas' famous desert tortoise Mojave Max has emerged from brumation at a record-late date. What might his tardy exit tell us about the upcoming summer weather in Southern Nevada?

Mojave Max, the desert tortoise, has emerged from his burrow in southern Nevada, signaling the start of warmer weather for the area.

Spring is finally here in Las Vegas. Mojave Max has emerged, breaking his record for the latest emergence in the 25-year ...

A multi-million-dollar U.S. warplane fell off the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier into the Red Sea on Monday in an accident that injured one sailor, the Navy said. A tractor that was towing the ...

Tucked away in the back of the Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo lies a shaded grassy area where 10 rescued gopher tortoises spend their days grazing and burrowing — unable to return to the wild but ...

However, one uniquely Arizonan experience may not instantly come to mind: Adopting a Sonoran Desert tortoise. Since 1981, the Arizona Game and Fish Department has facilitated a program to allow ...

Luckily, two slumbering desert tortoises survived thanks to the help of a longtime animal lover. Kenia Estrella has been working with animals since she was 17 years old. "I started with Los ...