The Galapagos Island tortoises are famous throughout the world. These giants from a bygone age are unique and found nowhere ...

The Philadelphia Zoo welcomed three new additions after a group of male Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises hatched.

The islands and atolls of the western Indian Ocean once teemed with giant tortoises that weighed as much as 600 pounds and ...

Mommy, a Western Santa Cruz tortoise, recently welcomed four hatchlings at the Philadelphia Zoo, where she has lived since 1932. By Sopan Deb Congratulations are in order for Mommy, a Galápagos ...

These are from the same clutch of eggs that produced four female tortoises earlier in the year, putting Mommy on the map as ...

Following the viral arrival of the four critically-endangered tortoise hatchlings earlier this year, the zoo has just ...

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 it is “overjoyed” at ...

Mommy, who has lived at the zoo for nearly 93 years, is seen as one of the most "genetically valuable Galapagos tortoises" in the Association of Zoos and Aquarium's Species Survival Plan.

A zoo press release sent via email proudly announced that three more critically endangered Galapagos tortoises — all male — ...

Three new Galapagos tortoise babies join their four sisters, who hatched earlier this year and were named after the "Golden ...

Remember those four female tortoise hatchlings named after the Golden Girls at the Philadelphia Zoo? They now have three ...