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The monument also serves to preserve the area's incredibly biodiverse land, nearly two-thirds of which is critical habitat for the endangered Mojave Desert tortoise and the desert pupfish.

the threatened desert tortoise. And while developers take steps to find them new places to live, sometimes the tortoises don’t want to leave. “When you take them and move them 10 miles away ...

BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Saratoga County police have arrested a Lake Pleasant man for the alleged sexual abuse of a minor, the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office reported on Wednesday.

Lake Mead is the most mirage-like thing I ... But there is more wildlife in this swath of eerie starkness than meets the eye. Desert tortoises burrow in the ground to escape the midday heat.

Among the organizations that submitted protest comments were Nye County, the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Desert Tortoise Council. All were denied or dismissed.

That’s the phrase caretaker Caitlin Doran uses to describe Palisades local and internet celebrity Tiptoe the tortoise, and the community she loves so much. The 23-year-old African Sulcata ...

Before the 1960s, the fourth largest lake on Earth glistened for miles across the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. By 2015 most of that shiny surface was reduced to a hauntingly barren expanse, ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for ...

One Pasadena family who lost their home is celebrating the survival and recovery of their pet tortoise, Rocky. When the family returned home to see what, if anything, survived the Eaton Fire ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...