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.

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.

One of the desert's most iconic denizens, the tortoise has been in peril for decades as urban growth wipes out habitat and temperatures rise.

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 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 ...

CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. (KERO) — The 66th annual Desert Tortoise Days in California City scheduled for this weekend is being postponed due to expected high winds, according to the city’s park ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — The Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum is putting out a call for help to find homes for desert tortoises. They're part of an adoption program through Arizona Game and Fish, but the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Mojave desert tortoise is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Their population is declining. Holcomb showed FOX5 broken shells from tortoises hit by cars on Nevada roadways.