For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo welcomed a clutch of Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises.

In early April, the Philadelphia Zoo welcomed four baby tortoises to their family, the first to be born there in the Zoo's ...

Mommy, a 97-year-old Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise, became the oldest first-time mom of her species after she welcomed four baby tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo in 2025.

For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise ...

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

Proud parents Mommy and Abrazzo are both nearly 100 years old, but they’re contributing to Galápagos tortoise conservation at ...

Four rare Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise hatchlings will go on public view at Philadelphia Zoo starting April 23.

The Philadelphia Zoo welcomed four new Western Santa Cruz tortoises, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise. What makes these ...

Even more remarkably, Mommy is the oldest first-time parent of her species, according to a press release from the zoo. Mommy ...

The first of the four hatchlings, all female, began to emerge from its white, hard-shelled egg on Feb. 27, the zoo said. The four hatchlings are part of a clutch of 16 eggs Mommy laid back in November ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Zoo is celebrating the mother tortoise and her babies that set a world record. The Western Santa Cruz Galapagos Tortoise made international headlines ...