One stall specializes in Mexico City-style quesadillas, their handmade tortillas stuffed with cheese and fillings like huitlacoche (corn fungus, much more delicious than it sounds) or flor de calabaza ...

Twentynine Palms faces a lawsuit over Ofland hotel, a planned luxury resort. Opponents say the project did not adequately ...

The Philadelphia Zoo is celebrating a big moment for an almost-extinct reptile species: the hatching of nine critically ...

The Mojave Desert tortoise has long been considered a threatened species, but in June, California declared it endangered.

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable ...

A pair of Ohio police officers responded to a "unique call" and engaged in a very slow-speed chase involving an escaped ...

Tortoise Gets Stuck Under the Table and Unknowingly Drags Dinner Away From the Family first appeared on PetHelpful on Aug 17, ...

Barney, the tire-sized tortoise from Denison, loves people—and watermelon—but on Wednesday evening, he loved the thrill of ...

They enthralled sailors. They inspired Darwin. Then, by the mid 19th-century, the iconic Floreana tortoise was gone. Here’s ...

Most people have a turtle story, whether that’s seeing a turtle at an aquarium, having a turtle as a pet as a kid, or they ...

Big Cypress National Preserve is home to Alligator Alcatraz, which is causing light pollution in one of the first dark skies ...

EPA has signed off on the environmental assessment of a desert tortoise conservation proposal intended to both protect the ...