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

Florida gopher tortoises are a threatened species and 365 others depend on their burrows. Florida development boom is leaving little room for the native land tortoises. Developers may have to relocate ...

Gopher tortoises are protected, so you can’t bother them, their eggs or their burrows (except in general lawn maintenance situations), which includes its perimeter of 25 feet.

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

A Florida family planned their dream home, until protected tortoises took over. Now, they're paying $1,300 in taxes for ...

Florida gopher tortoises are a threatened species and 365 others depend on their burrows. Florida development boom is leaving little room for the native land tortoises. Developers may have to ...

Gopher tortoises are a keystone species: one that others in natural systems depend on. Their burrows can host more than 300 other creatures, many of them also protected, like eastern indigo snakes ...

Florida gopher tortoises are a threatened species and 365 others depend on their burrows. Florida development boom is leaving little room for the native land tortoises. Developers may have to ...

Gophers are small, furry rodents that burrow tunnels through yards of North America and Central America. Their full name is pocket gopher because they have external fur-lined cheek pouches, or ...

This photo shows the 4.5-foot alligator outside the gopher tortoise burrow in Tattnall County, Georgia. It's rare to see alligators use tortoise burrows.

You may not know the differences between a groundhog vs gopher– but you’re likely here to find out! There are many differences between these two common household pests, including their basic ...

Florida gopher tortoises are a threatened species and 365 others depend on their burrows. Florida development boom is leaving little room for the native land tortoises. Developers may have to ...