Tortoise shells aren’t just tough armor—they’re living parts of the tortoise’s skeleton, loaded with secrets of survival, ...

A Galapagos tortoise is proving that it’s never too late to become a mom, having her first baby at almost 100 years old.

Four critically-endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise babies made their debut at the Philadelphia Zoo on Wednesday ...

The world’s oldest Sunday newspaper was acquired this week by Tortoise Media, a six-year-old startup that hopes to ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A Galapagos tortoise that’s been at the Toledo Zoo since 2014 has passed. The Zoo announced Friday that ...

Since being adopted from a rescue in 2019, Darwin has endeared himself to his owners, extended family and neighbors.

A kind-hearted stranger spotted the turtle slowly making his way across a street and stopped to help, not knowing he had just ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Toledo Zoo's 80-year-old Galapagos turtle "Emerson" has died, the zoo said in a social media post Friday ...

Myrtle, the tortoise that was displaced from its home in Mississippi during a deadly tornado outbreak in March, has finally ...

The zoo on Wednesday debuted its four female Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise hatchlings, moving them to their public ...

It is hard to tell the girls apart, so zookeepers put a little dot of different color nail polish on each of them.

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