Those looking for a long-term animal companion should consider forgoing the more standard cat or dog in favor of one of these long-lived pets.

The United States government provided a $1.6 billion loan guarantee and the plant is built on public land. In 2010, the project was scaled back from its original 440 MW design to avoid disturbing the ...

The Galapagos Tortoises had developed a large indentation in their shell that allows them to stretch their long necks to reach higher vegetation, a critical adaptation for life in this hostile ...

Alagba, Nigeria’s royal tortoise alleged to be the oldest in Africa, lived to the estimated age of 344 before its death on October 3, 2019. Considered a historical figure, Alagba lived in the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An array of mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating site is shown near Primm, Nev., Aug. 13, 2014 ...

Some of that has been turned over to Joshua Tree National Park, the Mojave National Preserve and military bases to aid in habitat connectivity for threatened desert tortoise and other animals ...

the threatened desert tortoise. And while developers take steps to find them new places to live, sometimes the tortoises don’t want to leave. “When you take them and move them 10 miles away ...

Now, thanks to thick invasions of grass, fires here burn hotter, faster, and over larger areas. Besides saguaros, these fires also kill other iconic but slow-moving species, including desert tortoises ...

Dar es Salaam. A total of 116 baby tortoises that were smuggled by a Ukrainian national, Orga Kryshtopa in 2023, have been returned to Tanzania as evidence against their smuggler. More than two years ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for their ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for their ...