For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise ...

In this episode, we visit Florida Iguana & Tortoise Breeders to meet one of the largest tortoises on the planet - a living ...

Today, tortoises are being rewilded and recognized for both their inherent worth and benefits to local ecosystems and ...

Age makes us all move a little slower, but the world’s oldest living land animal is at least used to the pace. The title is held by a Seychelles giant tortoise by the name of Jonathan, who just ...

One nearly century-old tortoise has been a fixture of the Philadelphia Zoo since 1932 — and now she’s living up to her name. Mommy, the estimated 97-year-old Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise, ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sixteen critically endangered western Santa Cruz tortoises born to some very old parents got a slow walk and the red carpet treatment Wednesday at a Philadelphia Zoo event to show ...

The Philadelphia Zoo made the announcement Thursday, celebrating the arrival of a new generation of Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises, the largest living tortoise species and a critically ...

(WPHL) — For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise family. The zoo announced the hatching of four critically endangered ...