Looking for a beach getaway with a twist? This remote spot blends quiet hikes, epic coastal views, and once-in-a-lifetime ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

Goliath had been paired with several female tortoises before, in hopes of producing a hatchling, but the process wasn't ...

“At one point, each of the Galapagos Islands had its own unique subspecies of tortoise, but sadly, several of them are now extinct. These hatchlings not only protect the species from ...

“At one point, each of the Galapagos Islands had its own unique subspecies of tortoise, but sadly, several of them are now extinct,” Vice President of Animal Well-Being and Conservation Rachel Metz ...

GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS, Ecuador (AP ... a special threat to the giant tortoises closely associated with the Galapagos. The tortoises declined dramatically in the 19th century due to hunting ...

Hundreds of endangered giant tortoises have been returned to the wild on the Galápagos Islands through a conservation program. Park rangers and conservation groups worked together to collect ...

An Ecuadorian fossil hints that the giant tortoises of the Galapagos were already colossal when they arrived in the islands 1. The ancestors of the Galapagos Islands’ famous tortoises ...

Natural scientist and author Robert Rothman takes readers on a reptillian tour of the Galápagos Islands in his new book, A Paradise for Reptiles: Lizards, Snakes, and Giant Tortoises of the Galápagos ...

A captive breeding program has seen the return of Galápagos giant tortoises to Española in the Galápagos Islands. As the tortoise population rebounds, the island ecosystem is in the process of ...

and pirates changed the ecology of the Galapagos Islands by poaching some native species—like Galapagos giant tortoises—and introducing others, like goats and rats. The latter species became ...

The results bode well for other rewilding projects that include giant-tortoise restoration as a keystone of their efforts, he says, such as those under way on other islands in the Galápagos ...