A tortoise species not seen in over 100 years was found on the Galapagos island of Fernandina A member of a tortoise species not seen in over 100 years and long thought to be extinct was just ...

The sun is blazing down when I meet endangered Galápagos tortoises for the first time. They look like modern-day dinosaurs, lazily ambling around on scaly, dusty bowlegs. I proffer a carrot to ...

Fernandina Giant-Tortoise (Chelonoidis phantasticus) female, nicknamed Fern, photographed in the Giant Tortoises breeding center in Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands.

A pair of Galapagos tortoises are proving that it’s never too late to raise a family. The Philadelphia Zoo said it was “overjoyed” at the arrival of the four hatchlings, a first in its more ...

The giant tortoise having so much sex, he's saving his species 00:57. Scientists have found a giant tortoise on the Galápagos Islands from a species thought to have gone extinct more than 100 ...

The two rare Galápagos tortoises were taken from the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park on Nov. 30. ... “This species is NOT available in the pet trade and they will get to be 600lbs!

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 ...

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 birth of tortoises native to Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos increases their U.S. population from 44 to 48. A few thousand remain globally, according to estimates by experts.

From the time those 14 tortoises were taken into captivity between 1963 and 1974 until they were finally released in 2020, conservationists with the NGO Galápagos Conservancy and the Galapagos ...