UPDATE: Three more of Mommy's eggs have hatched as of May 15. All of the baby tortoises are boys. The longest resident at the Philadelphia Zoo is a new parent — and the oldest known first-time mom of ...

For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise ...

The Galapagos Island tortoises are famous throughout the world. These giants from a bygone age are unique and found nowhere else on Earth. The western Santa Cruz giant tortoise is a subspecies of ...

Researchers suggest that an earthquake spooked a mob of sea turtles gathered together in a prehistoric sea. By Carolyn Wilke Gramma, a Galápagos tortoise described by her care specialists as “the ...

QUITO (Reuters) - After stunning conservationists by mating for the first time in decades, a giant tortoise from the Galapagos islands called Lonesome George, who is the last of his kind, still may ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian police rescued 27 baby Galapagos tortoises, a highly endangered species, from a group of traffickers trying to take them to Europe, authorities said on Wednesday. The ...

Pikaia Lodge offers eco-luxury, Michelin-key dining, roaming wildlife, and guided land and sea adventures in the heart of the ...

Aims: Islands are widely recognized as natural laboratories for evolutionary studies, but many questions about evolution on islands remain unresolved. Here we address two general questions from a ...

It’s one of the most remote places on Earth, host to unique and abundant wildlife and perhaps offers the best big-game fishing in the world. The incredible volcanic archipelago known as the Galápagos ...