This week marks the arrival of Earth Month, and with it the inaugural Reel Wild New York Film Festival. Running April 4-5 at ...

Their body was black and it sported two white stripes down its neck, with an impressive tuft ... Lonesome George was a male Pinta Island tortoise and the last known individual of the species on the ...

The Aldabra giant tortoise, which tops our list ... They have a small shell and a very long neck, which they use to filter seawater for food and oxygen while buried deep in the sand. Geoducks grow ...

Lorraine also looks at a visiting Australian Freshwater Tortoise, looking closely at the shell. The poem of the week is recited. Lorraine pretends to be a horse rider, using her neck scarf as the ...

Lorraine also looks at a visiting Australian Freshwater Tortoise, looking closely at the shell. The poem of the week is recited. Lorraine pretends to be a horse rider, using her neck scarf as the ...

A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time ...

Mommy, a Western Santa Cruz tortoise, recently welcomed four hatchlings at the Philadelphia Zoo, where she has lived since 1932. By Sopan Deb Congratulations are in order for Mommy, a Galápagos ...

The birth of tortoises native to Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos increases their U.S. population from 44 to 48. A few ...

A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time parents. In an announcement Friday, the zoo said it is “overjoyed” at ...

Two endangered Galapagos tortoises have become parents for the first time at nearly the age of 100, the Philadelphia Zoo has announced. The Philadelphia Zoo has long been active in Galápagos tort ...