Most of us are used to seeing pets out on the town with their owners, especially dogs, cats, birds, lizards, and snakes. But what about an almost 200-pound tortoise? That's definitely not something ...

A Wild West mining village with a population of under 100 is facing an existential threat as a new California law impedes access in an effort to protect tortoises. Randsburg, a tiny mountainous town ...

To protect the desert tortoise, a federal judge has closed more than 2,200 miles of California’s Western Mojave Desert to off-road vehicles. By the government’s own monitoring, those vehicles are ...