As families file into the Houston Zoo to experience the new Galápagos Islands habitat, they’re making a difference for conservation efforts around the globe. Funding that comes in from guests allows ...

On our third day in the Galápagos Islands, we traveled to the highlands for our first look at some of the most majestic creatures on the planet. Galápagos giant tortoises make their home half the year ...

One Galápagos tortoise lived 141 years, turning quiet meals and slow steps into a legacy of care, memory, and conservation ...

Giant tortoises currently living on San Cristóbal of the Galápagos Archipelago may need a new scientific name, as researchers had mistakenly conflated them with an extinct tortoise species. In 1906, ...

In the following century, conservationists set out to restore the Galápagos giant tortoise on Española—and the island ecosystem. They began eradicating the introduced species, and capturing Española’s ...

Gramma, who died at the zoo on Thursday, was believed to have been born in 1884, when Chester A. Arthur was in the White House.

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 ...

San Diego Zoo mourns the loss of Gramma, a Galápagos tortoise estimated to be 141 years old. Born in the Galápagos Islands, ...

A species of tortoise long believed extinct has been found alive and well on the Galápagos Islands. The reptile, named Fernanda after her Fernandina Island home, is the first of her species identified ...

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A giant tortoise species thought to be extinct has been found living on the Galapagos island of Fernandina. The discovery marks the first time researchers have located a Fernandina Island tortoise ...

After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galápagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died.