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 ...

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 ...

Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties. Chuckwalla National Monument was established in mid-January by outgoing ...

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Military officials plan to move more than a thousand desert tortoises to keep them safe from training exercises in Southern California. The Press Enterprise reports that the ...

At first, Melissa Fullerton thought it was just a brown paper bag. But when she followed her neighbor's curious dog to the lump in the street on Sunday evening, Fullerton saw it was no paper bag. It ...

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 ...

An interstitial cell tumor is reported in a California desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizi). This case is unusual because testicular tumors have rarely been reported in reptiles. Publisher Information ...