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Meet some of the US Military's cuter shells - their desert tortoises. The creatures live in the Tortoise Research and Captive Rearing Site (TRACRS) at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), ...

What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...