In a 2011 study, scientists declared that tortoises living north and west of the Colorado River — the Mojave population now called Agassiz's desert tortoises, or Gopherus agassizii — are officially a ...

Tortoise, meanwhile, refers to any animal in a specific family, Testudinidae, that falls under this umbrella. In other words, ...

Desert Tortoise, Gopherus agassizii, pictured at Joshua Tree National Park, California on September 2016. (Getty Images) Wildlife researchers say the minimum density for desert tortoises to remain ...

A collaborative research team from NIMS and Tokyo University of Science has successfully developed an artificial intelligence (AI) device that executes brain-like information processing through ...

Native to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) once roamed all over the vast Mojave and Sonoran deserts, marking the landscape with their ...