Stepping off the path, I arrived at a small pond beneath a copse of trees, where I spotted one large male perched on the bank ...

A Galapagos giant tortoise estimated to be about 130 years old is returning home after having so much sex that he saved his species.. Diego, part of the Chelonoidis hoodensis species that lives on ...

A species of giant tortoise believed to have been extinct for more than 100 years has been discovered on the Galapagos island of Fernandina, according to Ecuador’s government. The last known ...

Until then, Fernanda is living out her days under the care of experts at the Galapagos Tortoise Center managed by the Galapagos National Park Directorate. Communications Biology DOI: 10.1038 ...

The Fernandina Island Galápagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis phantasticus, or “fantastic giant tortoise”) was known only from a single specimen, collected in 1906. The discovery in 2019 of a female ...

Zoo Miami's oldest animal, a 135-year-old Galapagos tortoise named Goliath, has become a father for the first time, marking a historic first hatchling for the zoo.

Tests carried out on a giant tortoise found in 2019 confirm it belongs to a species believed extinct. ... The Director of the Galapagos National Park, Danny Rueda, ...

Goliath, a 517-pound (234-kilogram) Galapagos tortoise at Zoo Miami, became a father for the first time earlier this month, zoo officials said.

Mommy, a nearly 100-year-old Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise, laid a group, known as a clutch, of eggs in November 2024, four of which have now hatched. Philadelphia Zoo.

Congratulations are in order for Mommy, a Galápagos tortoise and a longtime resident of the Philadelphia Zoo, who recently became a first-time mother at the estimated age of 100.