PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Zoo was full of families celebrating Mother's Day. They gathered for a ...

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

Tucked away in the back of the Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo lies a shaded grassy area where 10 rescued gopher tortoises spend their days grazing and burrowing — unable to return to the wild but ...

In a moment more than a century in the making, the Philadelphia Zoo has welcomed a rare and remarkable new generation — four critically endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise hatchlings.

But researchers have found that, for reasons so far unconfirmed, tortoises tend to avoid forests made up of Spanish cedar when migrating in search of food. "A few tortoises bludgeon their way through ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Toledo Zoo announced on Friday that an 80-year-old Galapagos tortoise, Emerson, has died. In a post on their social media, the zoo said he’s had more “intensive medical management” ...

Luckily, two slumbering desert tortoises survived thanks to the help of a longtime animal lover. Kenia Estrella has been working with animals since she was 17 years old. “I started with Los ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A Galapagos tortoise that’s been at the Toledo Zoo since 2014 has passed. The Zoo announced Friday that Emerson, 80, was euthanized after several years battling heart disease.

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Toledo Zoo's Galapagos tortoise "Emerson" has died, the zoo said in a social media post Friday morning. Emerson died peacefully Thursday, the zoo said, adding that Emerson had ...

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