The Lonesome George room is in Puerto Ayora, the city where about 13,000 Galapagueños live. The Galápagos National Park ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (AP) — 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 ...

Four tortoise hatchlings born at the Philadelphia Zoo now have names. Over 13,000 people voted for the zoo's youngest stars ...

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

It took nearly 100 years for a duo of endangered Philadelphia Zoo tortoises to become parents and the "Golden" moment is now ...

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

A rare Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise, estimated to be 97 years old, just became the oldest known first-time mother of her species, according to the Philadelphia Zoo. The father of the four new ...

The sex of tortoise hatchlings is influenced by temperature, so the zoo incubated eight eggs below 28° Celsius (82.4° Fahrenheit) to produce males and the other eggs above 29.5°C (85.1°F ...

In a historic first for the Philadelphia Zoo, a 92-year-old Galápagos tortoise named Mommy has given birth for the first time, becoming the oldest documented member of her species to do so.

Mommy, who has lived at the zoo for nearly 93 years, is seen as one of the most "genetically valuable Galapagos tortoises" in the Association of Zoos and Aquarium's Species Survival Plan.