One of four Galapagos tortoises hatchlings make its debut at the Philadelphia Zoo in Philadelphia, Wednesday, April 23, 2025.

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 ...

Galapagos tortoises come from the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador. As the largest living species of tortoise; males can grow to be 500 pounds while females average around 250 pounds.

Remember those four female tortoise hatchlings named after the Golden Girls at the Philadelphia Zoo? They now have three brothers! Three more critically endangered Galapagos tortoises have now ...

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 ...

One of four Galapagos tortoises hatchlings make its debut at the Philadelphia Zoo in Philadelphia, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Mommy, a nearly 100-year-old Galapagos ...

(WPHL) — For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise family. The zoo officially debuted four critically endangered ...

PHILADELPHIA -- 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 earlier this ...