The Philadelphia Zoo welcomed four new Western Santa Cruz tortoises, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise. What makes these ...

The arrival of their offspring bumped up the population of these Galapagos tortoises to a total of 48 in American facilities.

“It’s exciting to see the first in situ footage of a juvenile colossal and humbling to think that they have no idea that ...

A Galapagos tortoise at the Philadelphia Zoo has four new hatchlings. The first-time mother and her mate are both 100 years old!

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...

The arrival of their offspring bumped up the population of these Galapagos tortoises to a total of 48 in American facilities. Elderly Galapagos tortoise welcomes four critically endangered ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (AP) — A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time parents. In an announcement Friday, the zoo said ...

I’ve already dodged a couple of giant tortoises along the white sand path on my morning walk from the research station on Picard Island to the lagoon, but now I’m stopped in my tracks to admir ...

These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

As humans, we can live as long as 80 to 120 years or even more, but there are some animals that exceed this number and can ...

Ageing animals that cannot be reintroduced into the wild are being given specialised geriatric care at Barcelona Zoo.View on ...