Once known as 'Hoover chickens,' the long-lived gopher tortoises are now at the center of a growing conservation battle.

The Gopher Tortoise may have legal protection but that means nothing these days. It’s easier and cheaper for developers to fill in their burrows effectively burying them alive or leaving them homeless ...

GAINSVILLE, FLA – To improve my chances, and because wandering around sandy scrub at dawn yelling ‘tortoise, please’ isn’t a real strategy, I arranged to meet Katherine Saylor, the Southeastern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock At a burrow in an Arizona backyard, two ground squirrels faced off with a gopher snake in what turned into an ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.— The International Union for Conservation of Nature has published a new assessment that revises the gopher tortoise’s status from “vulnerable” to “critically endangered” on the IUCN ...

The toll of time is flushing a much-loved central Alberta gopher museum from its aging burrows.

The gopher tortoise is one of five tortoises native to North America and the only one east of the Mississippi River.