Staff at the Galapagos National Park in Ecuador announced Lonesome George, a giant tortoise believed to be the last of its subspecies, has died. Scientists estimate he was about 100 years old.

George Robles, 42, has spent most of the past ... inch shards from a wooden garden gate post lodged in the back of the tortoise’s shell. She also found a rake handle shoved between the reptile ...

Prince Edward, 59, crouched down to meet Jonathan as the tortoise stretched his neck to ... and grandparents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother, in 1947, when he was ...

Tickets are $65, plus zoo admission. Thirteen tortoise species are native to seven Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador. In 2012, Lonesome George died in his home at the Tortoise Breeding ...