The tortoise is believed to be about 100 years old. It was taken by boat to the main Galapagos conservation center on Santa Cruz island. Conservationists in the Galapagos Islands have found a ...

The Philadelphia Zoo, America’s first zoo, is celebrating a historic first—a rare giant tortoise, nearly 100 years old, now holds the record as the oldest first-time mother of her species.

The arrival of their offspring bumped up the population of these Galapagos tortoises to a total of 48 in American facilities.

An extremely rare white tortoise baby ... Zoo keepers say the odds of an albino tortoise are 1 in 100,000. The white tortoise is one of two Galápagos giant tortoises (Chelonoidis niger) that ...

A pair of critically endangered giant tortoises aged about 100 years ... a pair Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises. The births were a "first" in the zoo's 150-plus-year history, it said ...