A pair of Galápagos tortoises in their 90s recently made headlines for successfully producing offspring for the first time. The female tortoise, aptly named Mommy, at Philadelphia Zoo is now ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The newly famous Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise hatchlings at the Philadelphia Zoo are in need of names! The hatchlings are four adorable reasons to visit the zoo ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Zoo is celebrating the mother tortoise and her babies that set a world record. The Western Santa Cruz Galapagos Tortoise made international headlines ...

6 ABC proudly reports that those four Galapagos tortoise hatchlings — the first in the zoo’s history to be successfully hatched — were named Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia. And yes ...

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 ...

On April 23, 2025, the historic zoo showed off the four Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises of the aptly-named Mommy and daddy Abrazzo hatched at the zoo earlier this year. They four reptiles ...