TOLEDO, Ohio — The Toledo Zoo's 80-year-old Galapagos tortoise "Emerson" has died, the zoo said in a social media post Friday ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

The gooselike birds have lumpy piano legs like a Galápagos turtle, and seem to have a set ... Hume regularly risked his neck climbing Hawaiian cliffs to look at remnant examples of Hawaii's ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Toledo Zoo announced on Friday that an 80-year-old Galapagos tortoise ... His caregivers described him as an intelligent tortoise who enjoyed neck scratches from keepers, basking in ...

Galapagos giant tortoise on Santa Cruz Island ... with distinct growth rings visible that help scientists estimate age. His neck is exceptionally long and flexible, allowing him to reach vegetation up ...

In the Galápagos Islands, where food sources vary from island to island, tortoises have evolved different shell shapes and neck lengths to access vegetation. Those living in drier areas have longer ...

The Lonesome George room is in Puerto Ayora, the city where about 13,000 Galapagueños live. The Galápagos National Park ...

Four critically-endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise babies made their debut at the Philadelphia Zoo on Wednesday ...