If only gopher tortoises could read. This poor tortoise, trying to find its way around in some very swampy habitat, was looking for dry land when it encountered the front door of the Blair Visitor ...

Reporter Timothy O’Hara delves into the life of a gopher tortoise, its burrow and its importance.

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).

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 ...

Springfield Dickerson Park Zoo zookeepers introduce us to Mel the gopher tortoise.

Gopher tortoise relocations spike amid development boom, but Florida running out of room Will Indian River County let developers build Ridge Top neighborhood atop 600 gopher tortoise burrows in ...