Since being adopted from a rescue in 2019, Darwin has endeared himself to his owners, extended family and neighbors.

Mojave Max, the desert tortoise whose annual spring emergence from his underground burrow at the Springs Preserve marks the beginning of spring in Southern Nevada, is awake, but he’s not ready ...

Over 100 desert tortoises at the Arizona Game and Fish Department need a forever home. AZGFD says the reptiles will soon wake up from brumation, which is similar to hibernation, and this is the ...

However, one uniquely Arizonan experience may not instantly come to mind: Adopting a Sonoran Desert tortoise. Since 1981, the Arizona Game and Fish Department has facilitated a program to allow ...

PHOENIX (KVOA) - The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) is seeking homes for over 100 non-releasable desert tortoises. With these tortoises soon waking from brumation, the AZGFD encourages ...

He makes note of the state reptile, the desert tortoise, which is now a protected species. "We have a head start program for the desert tortoise because they're threatened right now. The raven ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Fear not. Mojave Max is fine. Southern Nevada's famous weather-predicting desert tortoise has yet to emerge from his winter slumber despite the calendar approaching May.