When a tortoise begins waking from hibernation in early spring, it’s coming out of a demanding phase where its body has been ...

Dean Fioresi is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. He covers breaking news throughout Southern California. When he's not writing about local events, he enjoys focusing on sports and entertainment.

Why do baseball umpires wear black underwear? How long is the longest burp ever recorded? Which two states make it illegal to get married on a dare? If you know the answers to those trivia questions, ...

Riaan Manser visited St Helena for a week – an island with an overwhelming “sense of place”, the most unique rock pool he’s ever seen named after Lot and his wife – and met a 194-year-old tortoise ...

This video captures a tense rescue as baby tortoises are discovered trapped beneath packed earth. Viewers watch rescuers carve through soil and tangled roots in a race against time. The footage ...

SAN FRANCISCO— A federal judge has prohibited off-road vehicle use in critical habitat for desert tortoises in California’s western Mojave Desert, protecting more than 2,200 miles of proposed routes ...

Isaac Petersen named his two female Aldabra giant tortoises Cera and Ali after two dinosaurs in "The Land Before Time" animated franchise. It was a throwback to the time when Petersen, as a teenager, ...