Juvenile tortoises with Floreana ancestry were brought to their native island from the Galápagos National Park’s breeding ...

Juvenile tortoises with Floreana ancestry were brought to their native island from the Galápagos National Park’s breeding center on Santa Cruz Island, as part of ...

Nearly 150 years after the last giant tortoises were removed from Floreana Island in Ecuador’s Galápagos archipelago, the species made a comeback Friday, when ...

For the first time in 180 years, giant tortoises walk again on Floreana Island—in largest restoration effort ever undertaken ...

The initial finding dates all the way back to 1947, when someone discovered that people associated some word-like sounds with ...

The Bureau of Land Management was ordered to close down popular off-roading trails in parts of the Mojave in order to protect the imperiled desert tortoise.

What is a group of turtles called? Learn the collective nouns like bale and flotilla for these amazing reptiles.

Explore these top wildlife adventures, from the plains of the Serengeti to the volcanic islands of the Galápagos ...

This video captures the intense rescue effort to save baby tortoises trapped underground. The unstable soil threatens to collapse as each shovelful gets closer to the hidden hatchlings. Experts ...

Artificial incubation has led to the first successful hatching of Aldabra Giant Tortoises in the Seychelles, following groundbreaking research that revealed their low hatching success in the wild was ...

An adorable, furry baby Hoffman's two-toed sloth has made its debut at a zoo in Florida. Zookeepers at the Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society have been monitoring the baby sloth and its mother, ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Zoo Knoxville has had its most successful year hatching flat-tailed tortoises yet, with 10 new hatchlings joining the zoo. Zoo Knoxville shared a video of the new hatchlings ...