It’s common for alligators to spend winter in holes, but they are usually along waterways, state biologists said. In this case, the gopher tortoise hole is more than 800 yards from “a ...

Their burrows, which can be up to 40 feet deep,provide habitat for more than 360 other animals, including indigo snakes, gopher frogs, Florida mice, burrowing owls, quail, opossums and armadillos.

Last month, Georgia biologists were given quite the shock when inspecting gopher tortoise holes. “Imagine getting down on your belly to look down a gopher tortoise hole and instead seeing a 4 1/ ...

Last month, Georgia biologists were given quite the shock when inspecting gopher tortoise holes. “Imagine getting down on your belly to look down a gopher tortoise hole and instead seeing a 4 1/ ...

EUSTIS — Volunteers tidying up the community on Tuesday came across a horrific sight: more than a dozen gopher tortoise shells in the woods with holes apparently drilled into them. They found ...

Gopher tortoise: Move over Phil for this Florida "gopher." This slow-moving tortoise should make shadow-detecting easy. Either way, he probably doesn't care much since he spends 80% of his time in ...

A gopher tortoise shell graveyard."The find that we had this weekend was so haunting to us. We found 14 gopher tortoise shells. At first, we found one or two and we didn't think much of it.

It’s common for alligators to spend winter in holes, but they are usually along waterways, state biologists said. In this case, the gopher tortoise hole is more than 800 yards from “a ...

It’s common for alligators to spend winter in holes, but they are usually along waterways, state biologists said. In this case, the gopher tortoise hole is more than 800 yards from “a ...

It’s common for alligators to spend winter in holes, but they are usually along waterways, state biologists said. In this case, the gopher tortoise hole is more than 800 yards from “a ...