The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...

We're in the midst of our spring campaign, and we have until April 27 to raise $15,000. These funds directly support the ...

The Americas are home to a spectacular array of wildlife and a multitude of upscale destinations scattered across both ...

In the mid-1980s, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a deeply satirical, allegorical novel called Galápagos in which an ageing hustler flees ...

The spillage of more than 150,000 gallons of diesel oil from an Ecuadorean tanker near the Galapagos Islands ... which are famous for their giant tortoises and rare species of birds and plants.

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

The sex of tortoise hatchlings is influenced by temperature, so the zoo incubated eight eggs below 28° Celsius (82.4° Fahrenheit) to produce males and the other eggs above 29.5°C (85.1°F ...

In a historic first for the Philadelphia Zoo, a 92-year-old Galápagos tortoise named Mommy has given birth for the first time, becoming the oldest documented member of her species to do so.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (AP) — A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time parents. In an announcement Friday, the zoo said ...