Will Indian River County let RSG of Vero Beach build Ridge Top neighborhood atop 600 gopher tortoise burrows in Wabasso?

They instinctively know to dig just above the water table. "The burrow itself is an awesome work of engineering,” said Gerry-Ana Jones of the Indian River County Gopher Tortoise Alliance .

“They’ll start to hatch in September or October, and from the moment they hatch, they’re on their own. They’ll start to dig almost immediately. It’s an incredible thing to see.” That the gopher ...

A Harvard zoologist last week proved the existence of a new female sex hormone. It had taken him 20 years. The new hormone, named relaxin by its discoverer, may be of interest to at least half the ...

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.