Following the viral arrival of the four critically endangered Galapagos tortoise hatchlings earlier this year, the zoo has just welcomed three more critically endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapag ...

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 ...

a spokesperson for Philadelphia Zoo wrote in a Facebook post. "Mommy the Galapagos tortoise’s four baby girls have just made their public debut inside the Reptile and Amphibian House in honor of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to Augustine, Mommy is considered one of the most genetically valuable Galapagos tortoises in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Species Survival Plan (SSP). “The program ...