A roughly 100-year-old western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise has become a mom for the first time after reproducing with a ...

An endangered giant tortoise has become the oldest first-time mom of her species after having her first babies at around 100 ...

While adults tortoises are easy to spot, hatchlings often stay hidden to avoid overheating or being eaten by predators, he said ... Generally, there are about 17,000 Galapagos tortoises left, ...

These tortoises were removed and placed in ... one of the largest predators in the Galapagos waters. I spot sea cucumbers on the bottom, once almost extinct here in the Galapagos, but it's the ...

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

“Philadelphia Zoo’s vision is that those hatchlings will be a part of a thriving population of Galapagos tortoises ... as a lack of native predators) allow Galápagos tortoises to regularly ...

While adults tortoises are easy to spot, hatchlings often stay hidden to avoid overheating or being eaten by predators ... there are about 17,000 Galapagos tortoises left, according to the ...