Hyderabad: In a bizarre twist of illegal wildlife trade, two men, who were arrested on Wednesday for selling star tortoises to customers, were found claiming that keeping these reptiles would ...

Under the unyielding desert sun, a quiet yet fierce struggle for survival is underway. Here, among the creosote bushes and shifting sands, the desert tortoise — one of North America’s oldest ...

The Tortoise Research and Captive Rearing Site raises vulnerable tortoises on the vast Marine Corps base. “The desert tortoise is considered a keystone species, which means that they have a ...

The two tiny tortoises emerged from their burrows as soon as they detected Brian Henen’s footsteps, eager for the handfuls of bok choy and snap peas that would soon be tossed their way.

The Tortoise Research and Captive Rearing Site at the Twentynine Palms Marine base shelters the young reptiles until their shells are tough enough to withstand raven attacks. The site is aimed at ...

“The desert tortoise is considered a keystone species, which means that they have a disproportionate effect on the entire ecosystem,” says Henen, a civilian who heads the conservation branch ...

Equal recognition of male and female athletes is as critical as celebrating girls and boys equally in sport at school. We’re making progress, but we’re not there yet.” While also ...

Tortoise Media has formally signed a deal to buy The Observer and appointed the newspaper’s next editor. Correction on Thursday 19 December: A Guardian Media Group clarification has now stated ...

19, 2013. (AP Photo/Raphael Satter, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] LONDON (AP) — The owner of Britain’s Guardian newspaper confirmed Wednesday that it has ...

The Observer is to fall under the ownership of Tortoise Media, a fledgling digital start-up, in a binding deal signed after weeks of controversy about the fate of the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.

Simply sign up to the Media myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Digital start-up Tortoise Media has finalised an agreement to buy the Observer, the 233-year-old Sunday newspaper ...

motivations and incidents of female shooters between 1979 and 2019 for an article published in the Journal of Mass Violence Research in 2021. They said existing studies attribute male mass ...