Indio's budget for public art in fiscal year 2022-2023, ending on June 30, is $545,223 and a total of $410,000 was approved for art projects below. ‘Desert Tortoise’ ...

Desert tortoises have temperature-dependent sex determination: Cooler temperatures result in male clutches and warmer temperatures result in female clutches. Tool is playing Phoenix in early '24.

The desert tortoise had previously been classified as "threatened" by the California Endangered Species Act in 1989, as well as by the federal Endangered Species Act of 1990.

Desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) have an average lifespan of 30 to 50 years but may live to be more than 80. They range from 8 to 15 pounds and 9 to 15 inches. You can’t legally buy a ...

Artist Chris Peterson with Utah Wildlife Walls was commissioned to paint a tortoise mural on the wall of the Station 2 Bar by Zion Brewery, St. George, Tuesday.

A group of 70 endangered Mojave desert tortoises are doing well in the wild six months after their release. The young reptiles received support from scientists from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife ...

Another effort to help save the Mohave desert tortoise is being proposed, this time with the proposed removal of several hundred burros from within the Tass-Gold Butte Herd Management Area 60 ...

Officials in Nevada said a desert tortoise named Mojave Max has emerged from his winter burrow at a nature preserve in Las Vegas. Max made his appearance at 3:40 p.m. Monday.

A sulcata tortoise escaped its habitat at an ostrich ranch and attempted to cross Interstate 10 before being rescued by Arizona state troopers. Story by Coleby Phillips, Arizona Republic • 1w ...

Spring is finally here in Las Vegas. Mojave Max has emerged, breaking his record for the latest emergence in the 25-year history of the Mojave Max Emergence Contest.. Max, the desert tortoise ...

A desert tortoise, which was listed as threatened in 1990 and can live for 50 to 80 years, walks near a flowering Schott’s indigobush in the proposed Chuckwalla National Monument on April 25 ...