Water turtles require more extensive care and are recommended to be kept outdoors to help duplicate it's natural environment, ...

Their diet can include fish, jellyfish, and aquatic plants. Tortoises: Tortoises are mainly herbivores, feeding on grass, leafy greens, and other vegetation. Turtles: The lifespan of turtles ...

They eat fish and other animals. There are many species of tortoise. Tortoises are slow moving reptiles and are the longest-living land animals in the world. Some are known to have lived for over ...

While tortoises across their range continue to lose their homes and lives in the wake of human development, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has relegated the eastern population of gopher tortoises ...

The different species vary in size, with the largest being the Burmese mountain tortoise (also known as the Asian brown tortoise). It reaches up to 60cm in length and weighs up to 20-37kg. Most Asian ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Nokuse Education, Inc. sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for denying Endangered Species Act protections to gopher tortoises ...

As solar energy farms continue to pop up across the Mojave Desert, some residents are being squeezed out of their homes: the ...

Under the Endangered Species Act, the federal government listed Mojave desert tortoises as threatened in 1990. The project area includes the last unfenced portion of what the U.S. Fish and ...