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 ...

A rescued gopher tortoise arrived at the Nokuse Nature Preserve in Florida's Panhandle while my sister Erica and I were there. It didn't know how lucky it was. Across Florida, builders are required to ...

BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – The gopher tortoise is one of the many reptiles that call Florida home. You might even have a few in your backyard, like the Sandhills Native Nursery. The tortoise species is ...

A new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature revises the gopher tortoise’s status from “vulnerable” to “critically endangered” on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

EUSTIS, Fla. – Butterflies move between flowers as wind chimes ring through the trees at the Trout Lake Nature Center. Nearby, a three-legged gopher tortoise named Tripod slowly eats lettuce and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – The gopher tortoise is one of the many reptiles that call Florida home. You might even have a few in ...