AZGFD hopes people will open their backyards to give surrendered tortoises a new home. After building a suitable burrow, ...

The temperature of the nest determines the sex of the hatchlings, with warmer nests producing females and cooler nests producing males. Once the eggs hatch, newly hatched tortoises and young ...

Researchers assessed the health of gopher tortoises, including these two hatchlings, at two sites in southeastern Florida. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of ...

Most Asian turtles and tortoises dig themselves nests in mud or sand to lay their eggs. The hatchlings are born with a tooth egg to help them break out of the shell which is shed shortly afterwards.

Females do not care for their young; typically, only one to five of every 100 hatchlings reach adulthood. While adult tortoises hibernate in winter, tortoises less than two or three years old are ...

Tortoises are also threatened by disease, invasive species like fire ants, and climate change. Characteristics such as delayed sexual maturity, dependence on high adult survival rates and high levels ...

Biologists decided to head-start about 550 young tortoises that were taken from expansion areas. Then, starting a couple of years ago, Henen's team began gathering, incubating and hatching eggs from ...