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Meet Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise who, at an estimated 192 to 193 years old in 2025, is officially the world’s oldest living land animal. Remarkably, he may be even older than documented, ...

For the first time in 150 years and after more than 50 years of conservation efforts, the number of saddleback giant tortoises (Chelonoidis ephippium) seems set to recover unaided on Pinzón ...

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

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

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Zoo is welcoming two of the world's largest tortoise species. The giant tortoise exhibit featuring Galapagos and Aldabra tortoises will open Memorial Day Weekend 2025. ...

Arizona state troopers rescued Stitch, the giant sulcata tortoise, from an interstate highway after it escaped from its enclosure at a ranch. By Sara Ruberg On an interstate highway between ...

An international team of wildlife researchers has found that the giant tortoises living on the Galápagos islands may be in danger of losing a major food resource due to the encroachment of ...

Diego, the giant tortoise who almost single handedly saved his own species (Credit: Alamy) An army of reptilian bulldozers is helping a Galápagos island make an ecological comeback. Española's ...

A six-year-old project to return giant tortoises to the wild in Madagascar could result in thousands of the 350kg megaherbivores re-populating the island for the first time in 600 years.

Several giant tortoises have been found dead in woodland owned by the National Trust in Devon. Devon and Cornwall Police said seven dead tortoises were found in Ashclyst Forest, to the north of ...