Utah has 15 endangered Mojave desert tortoises up for adoption. Once taken from the wild, they can’t return — but in the ...

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State wildlife officials are looking for good homes for 15 desert tortoises. Why it matters: The endangered reptiles can't be ...

As monsoon rains bring much needed water to Arizona’s deserts, you may notice some of the state’s beloved shell-backed reptiles on the move. State wildlife officials have a message for those who may ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...

Living in Arizona comes with many perks, from enjoying the red rocks of Sedona, basking in the year-round warm weather or taking in the beauty of the classic Saguaro cactus. However, one uniquely ...

The desert tortoise, a once-resilient reptile, is a keystone species in the Mojave Desert, where other animals depend for their survival on the burrows it digs. But it is imperiled in California ...

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 ...

MOJAVE DESERT, California (CNN) -- Scientists have been crawling around in the desert, trying to stop the desert tortoise's slow crawl toward extinction. On one such recent outing, they made an ...