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The future is looking brighter for the threatened and obscure New Mexico ridge-nosed rattlesnake (aptly named Crotalus willardi obscurus), as partners come together to restore and repopulate a reptile so rare and hard to find in some populations it takes an on average over 800 hours for an expert...

In the arid wilds of the Chihuahuan Desert’s northern range in southern New Mexico, an icon of conservation dwells, deep in a hole in the ground, defying human standards of time. Her name is Gertie, and she is an endangered Bolson tortoise of mysterious age and endearing demeanor. Gertie's journey...

In the 1950s in Mexico, scientists first described a new species of North American tortoise. In the 1970s Several of these Bolson tortoises we brought to the Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch including the first, a large female tortoise named Gertie, whose age is unknow, but experts estimate she’s...