State officials are investigating after numerous recent gopher tortoise deaths at a popular beach destination.

Have you ever wondered how tortoises lay eggs? For many temperate species, such as Mediterranean and North American tortoises ...

Manatee County denied a 440-home development project proposed in Parrish by SimplyDwell Homes, a subsidiary of Neal ...

The sheer number of species that rely on a gopher tortoise burrow for survival, roughly 365, and the diversity of creatures ...

Gopher tortoise burrows can be more than 20 feet long, according to Meylan, providing critical shelter not just for the tortoises but also for hundreds of other animals that depend on them to ...

It’s exactly those burrows that make the gopher tortoise so important, and why they’re the subject of such strong protections from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).

Samantha didn’t know it when she bought her peaceful 2-acre property, but there were at least two gopher tortoises already living beneath her future dream home site. A survey by a local biologist ...