Scientists have begun moving the Mojave Desert's flagship species, the desert tortoise, to make room for tank training at the Army's Fort Irwin despite protests by some conservationists. The ...

TWENTYNINE PALMS (AP) — The Marine Corps has relocated more than 900 tortoises from a section of Southern California's Mojave Desert to allow large-scale military training. The Marine Corps Air Ground ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo is home to five Radiated Tortoises: four females and one male. “They get their name from the patterns on their shell. That’s how you can tell ...

More than 1,000 desert tortoises are taking a trip with the Marine Corps this month. The Marines are using helicopters to relocate the tortoises to another part of the Mojave in make way for an ...

JOHNSON VALLEY >> The extent of military exercises in the Johnson Valley aren’t yet known about a month after a plan to move endangered desert tortoises out of the area was delayed, military officials ...

An adult desert tortoise weighs about 12 pounds and can take days to travel a mile, yet the reptiles have managed to get one of most formidable forces on earth — the United States Marine Corps — to ...

FORT IRWIN (AP) — Scientists have begun moving the Mojave Desert”s flagship species, the desert tortoise, to make room for tank training at the Army”s Fort Irwin despite protests by some ...

In Fort Irwin, Calif., scientists started moving the desert tortoise, the Mojave Desert's flagship species. This effort to make room for tank training at the Army's Fort Irwin has left many ...