Most people assume tortoises are slow, plodding animals that would be among the last to escape danger. A three-year-old tortoise named Leo from Fullerton, California, turned that assumption completely ...

Giant tortoises have returned to Floreana Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago as conservationists release 158 juvenile ...

Mojave Desert tortoises are endangered. Before they disappear completely, officials have to do something to protect them.

In a significant decision that affects off-road vehicle recreation in the western Mojave Desert, a federal judge has ...

The feds and environmental groups reignite a decades-long fight over how much development a conservation area — and the desert tortoise it was created to protect — can withstand as southwest Utah ...

The Mojave Desert near Los Angeles is full of hiking trails and adventure. Here are three trails near L.A. already bursting ...

A federal judge has ordered off-highway vehicle riders to steer clear of more than 2,200 miles of proposed routes through California’s Mojave Desert that’s home to the threatened desert tortoise. In a ...

In this April 4, 2008 file photo, Marines wait for a desert tortoise to move off the road at the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) (CN ...

When driving through the Mojave National Preserve, one of the largest national park units in the contiguous United States, it’s easy to imagine that the entire vast desert landscape is a single piece ...

St. George • The on-and-off-again Northern Corridor Highway is officially back on again. Thirteen months after rejecting the right-of-way for the polarizing road, the Bureau of Land Management ...

MOJAVE MAXINE? This sweet celebrity has the sort of name that lends a headline or magazine cover with instant pizzazz, but here's the twist: She's never going to be followed by the paparazzi, her ...