Located at the San Diego Zoo, Gramma, the resident tortoise, was born in the Galapagos Islands around 1884. Those at the zoo ...

GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS, Ecuador — Editor's Note: The pictured tortoise above is not the one discovered in the Galapagos. A giant tortoise found in 2019 on the Galapagos island of Fernandina is said to be ...

Back in the late 1800s, groups of whalers, settlers, and pirates completely shifted the balance of the Galapagos Islands by ...

Scientists say a tortoise discovered in 2019 on the Galapagos Islands belongs to a species considered extinct more than 100 years ago. The single female tortoise belongs to the species Chelonoidis ...

Across nearly a century and a half, a single Galápagos tortoise watched the world change around her, outlasting wars, cultural revolutions, and more than twenty occupants of the White House. Now ...

The California zoo invited fans of the late Galápagos tortoise to enjoy one of her favorite snacks, a "generous, fruit-filled salad," in her honor Gramma, the Galápagos tortoise, the oldest animal at ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (KYW) — The Philadelphia Zoo celebrated a slow and steady success in conservation: the hatching of nine new critically endangered Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoises. The ...

Natural scientist and author Robert Rothman takes readers on a reptillian tour of the Galápagos Islands in his new book, A Paradise for Reptiles: Lizards, Snakes, and Giant Tortoises of the Galápagos ...

Mr. Potato Head, the El Paso Zoo's oldest resident, has revitalized digs, where he can roam on fresh grass, take a muddy dip in a wallow or stroll into his re-roofed barn to cool down on a straw bed.