Since the tortoises' digestion process can take 28 days, the researchers are worried about the effects of the trash.

Today, tortoises are being rewilded and recognized for both their inherent worth and benefits to local ecosystems and ...

A species of tortoise long believed extinct has been found alive and well on the Galápagos Islands. The reptile, named Fernanda after her Fernandina Island home, is the first of her species identified ...

A giant tortoise species thought to be extinct has been found living on the Galapagos island of Fernandina. The discovery marks the first time researchers have located a Fernandina Island tortoise ...

In the following century, conservationists set out to restore the Galápagos giant tortoise on Española—and the island ecosystem. They began eradicating the introduced species, and capturing Española’s ...

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

New genetic research has found that the Galapagos giant tortoise Chelonoidis phantasticus is not extinct. An international research team sequenced the genome of a the only known specimen of the ...

A tortoise from a Galápagos species long believed extinct has been found alive. Fernanda, named after her Fernandina Island home, is the first of her species identified in more than a century.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservationists said on Tuesday they have brought giant tortoises found on the Galapagos island of Espanola back from the brink of extinction, gaining a foothold strong enough ...

KPRC 2 has proudly partnered with the Houston Zoo for several years to cover the Zoo’s conservation work around the globe and to explain how Houstonians make the wildlife saving work possible. In ...