The Three Jay Tortoise Sanctuary had us over to feed some ... mess that Pope Francis spent much of his reign trying to fix World's largest passenger plane to start flying regularly from DIA ...

Four adorable western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise babies are now on display at Philadelphia Zoo after their 100-year-old 'Mommy' reproduced for the first time.

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...

Galápagos tortoises are the largest tortoises in the world, with males regularly weighing 500 pounds and the females averaging about half that. The cold-blooded reptiles spend a couple hours each ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Zoo is celebrating the mother tortoise and her babies that set a world record. The ...

"This is a significant milestone in the history of Philadelphia Zoo, and we couldn’t be more excited to share this news with our city, region, and the world," Jo-Elle Mogerman, the president and ...

are the largest tortoises in the world, and can live for over 170 years in captivity. Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoises are one of 13 living subspecies. The tortoises underwent a steep ...

Four critically-endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise babies made their debut at the Philadelphia Zoo on Wednesday ...

One nearly century-old tortoise has been a fixture of the Philadelphia Zoo since 1932 — and now she’s living up to her name. Mommy, the estimated 97-year-old Western Santa Cruz Galapagos ...

PHILADELPHIA -- The Philadelphia Zoo is celebrating the mother tortoise and her babies that set a world record. The Western ...