PHOENIX (KVOA) - As Arizona's trails get busier, the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) is urging motorized vehicle operators to be cautious of desert tortoises sharing the paths. Desert ...

Channel 13's Guy Tannenbaum spoke with a Springs Preserve zoologist to learn why Mojave Max is still in his burrow 'brumating' despite warm temperatures in April and May. Prince Harry Breaks His ...

Channel 13's Guy Tannenbaum spoke with a Springs Preserve zoologist to learn why Mojave Max is still in his burrow 'brumating' despite warm temperatures in April and May.

Even though we've already seen several high temperatures in the 90s this year, that's not enough to wake up desert tortoises from brumation—a reptile's version of hibernation. Smith says our ...

The program is slated to focus on reducing excessive speeding to decrease motor vehicle accidents (MVAs), visitor fatalities, and the negative impacts on wildlife such as the desert tortoise and ...

A tortoise that went missing from home for a ... We were entering the Nevada desert and all of a sudden I see a double rainbow. And I took a picture of it and I thought, that's a sign.

where young tortoises are raised in protected facilities until reaching a size that increases their heat tolerance and predator resistance before release. These conservation efforts recognize that ...

where young tortoises are raised in protected facilities until reaching a size that increases their heat tolerance and predator resistance before release. These conservation efforts recognize that ...

Max, a desert tortoise, is the region’s equivalent to Punxsutawney Phil, the famed Pennsylvania groundhog, whose appearance in February predicts the weather forecast for the upcoming season.

Over 30 of our local scouts helped the Children's Discovery Museum of the Desert with their tortoise habitat. Our chief photographer, Christopher Flicker, brings us this story.