A proposed housing development on the Treasure Coast is threatening to displace hundreds of gopher tortoises, and it may be part of a bigger pattern playing out across the state.

TortoiseLand is hosting an open house and an "Adopt A Tortoise" fundraiser at the Windsor Village-based rescue.

Meet Hercules, a 65-year-old desert tortoise who loves cruising around his yard and sleeping in his custom-made stone house.

Kolkata: Disease diagnosis of animals at Alipore Zoological Garden, one of the oldest in the country, has unearthed frequent ...

WPTV is taking up-close look at how a proposed housing development in Indian River County is threatening to displace hundreds of gopher tortoises. The protected species is beloved in Florida and their ...

A peanut farming company that sought 700 acres of north Florida state forest land, home to wildlife like gopher tortoises and swallow-tailed kites, last week withdrew its request for a land swap after ...

When Phil Hinson’s young son stepped into a tortoise enclosure during an Arizona Game and Fish Department adoption event last ...

It’s one of the most remote places on Earth, host to unique and abundant wildlife and perhaps offers the best big-game ...

Snout pressed to the ground, a border collie named Delta zigzagged through the shrubs on a private nature reserve near Cape Town, frantically sniffing for critically endangered tortoises. The dog ...