On a gray December day in California, Amy Keeler pulled her Subaru up to a chain link-fenced patch of Joshua Tree dirt. “It’s literally just a flat piece of property with trash all over it,” Keeler ...

For the second time in less than a week, authorities are asking for help locating a large turtle that disappeared, this time from an Alhambra woman’s home. Unlike the 90-pound sulcata tortoise named ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LODI, Calif. (KTXL) – A dozen large ...

A week before Thanksgiving, Hoss, a 35-pound sulcata tortoise, slips his enclosure at Sam and Christy Wheeler’s 24-acre farm in unincorporated Hood County, and after roaming the neighborhood for three ...

Camilla Imosini, 3, and her dad Richmond get a look at Sal, a large sulcata tortoise Saturday as he snacks on the grass in front of the JnW Reptile Rescue and Show area during the Greater Vallejo ...

And inside of it is literally a 100-pound sulcata (tortoise) that's liquefied.” Keeler described a feeling of shocked numbness as she saw a second large sulcata tortoise with its head stuck in the leg ...

Hoss, a 35-pound sulcata tortoise, lives in a 6-foot by 6-foot heated house with daylight and UVB lamps. He feasts on bowls of green and red leaf lettuce and has a burrowing tunnel Sam Wheeler built ...