Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A desert tortoise at the Desert Tortoise Research Natural Area near California City on Oct. 10. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) ...

Golem Grad, an uninhabited island in a country that once was part of Yugoslavia is crawling with about 1,000 Hermann’s ...

Let me see if I understand your Tuesday article ("Tortoise center wants out of the shelter business") about the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center no longer picking up pet and stray tortoises - ...

To the editor: The most hopeful aspect of reporter Louis Sahagun’s article about the fast decline in desert tortoise populations was The Times’ choice to put it on the front page. What happens to ...