Gopher tortoises are an amazing species that burrow and live underground. Read here to learn how other animals also use their ...

They have stumpy legs with strong feet designed for digging massive holes in sandy dunes. Gopher tortoises are among Florida's most ancient-looking critters, and they thrive at places like ...

SAVING THE GOPHER TORTOISE As this keystone species' name suggests, the gopher tortoise is an expert at living underground — like a gopher. Gopher tortoises have shovel-like front legs and strong, ...

The Gopher Tortoise features toes with claws on each toe. A Gopher Tortoise lives upland throughout Florida, digging deep burrows for shelter in pastures, yards, forests and dune areas.

Gopher tortoises tend to be solitary animals, but during the summer, they socialize because it’s mating season.

The gopher tortoise is reportedly a threatened species in Florida. It's “identified by its stumpy, elephantine hind feet and flattened, shovel-like forelimbs adapted for digging.

Gopher tortoises imperiled by loss of habitat largely caused by human development should be placed on the endangered species list in four southern states, environmental groups say.

Gopher tortoise burrows provide homes and protection for more than 350 other southeastern animals.

(Georgia Department of Transportation) Gopher tortoises had to be relocated because of I-75 construction. (Georgia Department of Transportation) They would then dig out the gopher tortoise.

STUART, Fla. (AP) — Florida wildlife officials say a man they found in possession of two gopher tortoises, said he didn”t want to keep them as pets — he planned to eat them. Martin County ...

They have stumpy legs with strong feet designed for digging massive holes in sandy dunes. Gopher tortoises are among Florida's most ancient-looking critters, and they thrive at places like ...

SAVING THE GOPHER TORTOISE As this keystone species' name suggests, the gopher tortoise is an expert at living underground — like a gopher. Gopher tortoises have shovel-like front legs and strong, ...