That means Jonathan will turn, at the very least, a whopping 193 years old later this year. During that time, the giant tortoise has lived through US presidents from Andrew Jackson all the way to ...

State officials are investigating after numerous recent gopher tortoise deaths at a popular beach destination.

Long known only as the site of Napoleon’s exile, Saint Helena is in fact a sanctuary of rare biodiversity, dramatic ...

It’s home to dozens of supersized, fully-grown giant tortoises, who from a distance could be mistaken for gigantic boulders, with their dark domes scattered amid the undulating meadow.

Goliath, a Galapagos tortoise, turned 135 years old on Father's Day at Zoo Miami. He celebrated becoming a father for the first time with the hatching of one egg on June 4.

MIAMI, Florida — A South Florida zoo’s oldest resident celebrated his 135th birthday and his first Father’s Day on Sunday. Goliath, a 234-kilogram (517-pound) Galapagos tortoise at Zoo Miami, ...

Of the 9,000 species here, many are unique to the Galapagos. Fauna consists of fish, birds and reptiles — like the islands’ famous giant tortoises; there are no land mammals.

This makes them the longest-lived vertebrates known to science. A full-grown Greenland shark typically measures between 13-16 feet (4-5 meters), but specimens exceeding 21 feet (6.4 meters) have been ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Toledo Zoo's Galapagos tortoise "Emerson" has died, the zoo said in a social media post Friday morning. Emerson died peacefully Thursday, the zoo said, adding that Emerson had ...

Four critically endangered tortoise babies made their debut at the Philadelphia Zoo this week, just in time for a belated Earth Day celebration. Four Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises, born ...

At around 97-years young and with wrinkly grey skin, Mommy, a Galápagos tortoise and the Philadelphia Zoo’s oldest resident, might not look like much. But she’s actually very eligible. Mommy is one of ...

The female tortoise, aptly named Mommy, at Philadelphia Zoo is now considered the oldest recorded first-time mom for the Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis porteri), at the age of 97.