Discover the step-by-step process behind tortoise egg-laying and what happens during the months-long incubation underground.

Smaller tortoises will lay roughly five eggs, while bigger tortoises may lay up to 30 at a time. The eggs are laid one by one into the nest and are then covered by the mother to incubate and keep ...

Hikers at Joseph D. Grant County Park, just outside of San Jose, saw an Argentine black and white tegu last week—and rangers are now searching for the out-of-place reptile ...

Georgia’s new wildlife plan brings together habitat restoration, native planting and online tools to guide conservation across the state.

Intrigued by this interaction, I'd come to Melbourne Beach to join a sea turtle nesting tour. Because turtles usually nest and hatch at night, our tour began around 21:00 in an auditorium, where ...

To most passersby, one front yard on Bayview Avenue in Barnegat Light looks like a child’s dream playground – a giant sandbox ...

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s collection of nature books and daydream about the creatures within.

All is fair in love and war – even in the Jurassic. On the ancient Iberian Meseta, the colossal Lusotitan, Old Grande, is in ...

While walking along Sonoma Creek in Maxwell Farms Regional Park recently, Anna and Will Pier looked down and spotted two ...