"That thing literally said Hello. Play back the video," one user wrote. Another added: "A thing of nightmares!" ...

Wednesday marked “Keeping Georgia Wild Day” at the State Capitol, and while the moniker might elicit a variety of memories ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service said it could buy land from property owners near the nation's largest blackwater swamp in ...

Would you ever expect to see a tortoise? Let alone a family of protected gopher tortoises? At Fish River Tree Farms in Robertsdale, it all started with one tortoise about 30 years ago. Now ...

The eastern population of animals are found in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and most of Alabama. “Denying gopher tortoises the protection they need to survive is indefensible,” said Elise Bennett, ...

Fittingly, gopher tortoises in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama (west of the Mobile and Tombigbee rivers) are protected as threatened under the Endangered Species Act — but those in eastern Alabama, ...

By the time the oldest human dies, odds are there's a giant tortoise out there somewhere who'll live twice as long as they did. Hailing from the Indian Ocean and the Galapagos islands, giant tortoises ...