This is the real-life story of Owen, a baby hippo, and Mzee, a 130-year-old tortoise. Hippopotamus in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Image by palko72 via Depositphotos. In December 2004, a ...

Long before Southern Nevada built its winding highways, desert tortoises roamed freely without consequence. For these federally protected animals, crossing the street without a dedicated path could ...

Long before Southern Nevada built its winding highways, desert tortoises roamed freely without consequence. For these federally protected animals, crossing the street without a dedicated path ...

Overall, the priciest residences currently for sale around the world are, unsurprisingly, in locales that are well known as attractive magnets for multibillionaires. About half of the homes can be ...

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The two tiny tortoises ... dead baby tortoises that were opened, killed, carried to the nests by adults and fed to the babies,” he said. “That is what started this whole thing.” In desert ...

TWENTYNINE PALMS MARINE CORPS BASE, CALIF. — The two tiny tortoises emerged from their burrows as soon as they detected Brian Henen’s footsteps, eager for the handfuls of bok choy and snap peas that ...

The two tiny tortoises emerged from their burrows as soon as they detected Brian Henen’s footsteps, eager for the handfuls of bok choy and snap peas that would soon be tossed their way.

LANCASTER — When Cheryl and Vince Reeves wanted to spruce up their backyard with a mural honoring their tortoise rescue and their little dogs, they reached out to the Antelope Valley College Art ...

barely big enough to hold a baby, much less an athletic 26-year-old. Yet, it held Diego Fernando Aguirre Pantaleón, or at least his remains, excavated from a common grave in a desert in northern ...

The monument’s name comes from the stocky Chuckwalla lizards that frequent the area, which is also home to bighorn sheep, desert tortoises, kangaroo rats, burrowing owls and jackrabbits.

Desert Dunes Golf Course, an 18-hole Robert Trent Jones Jr.-designed course in Desert Hot Springs, has closed its doors for good, according to the club’s website. Opened in 1989 as the first ...