Galapagos Tortoises

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  Endangered Galapagos Tortoises Become First-Time Parents At Almost 100

  Two endangered Galapagos tortoises have become parents for the first time at nearly the age of 100, the Philadelphia Zoo has announced.

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  100-Year-Old Tortoise Starts His First-Time Fatherhood at Philadelphia Zoo

  The Philadelphia Zoo has long been active in Galápagos tortoise conservation—giants native to the Ecuadorian archipelago. Arriving in the zoo in the 1940s, it had never exhibited any inclination for mating. But lately, staff members paired him with a 35-year-old female called Estrella based on behavioral changes.

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  Rare Baby Albino Galapagos Giant Tortoise Makes Public Debut, Internet Delighted

  A zoo in Switzerland has welcomed a rare albino Galapagos giant tortoise. The zoo posted a "never before seen" photo of the baby tortoise on its Facebook page on Friday. The two tortoises were born as part of a conservation program.

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  A Fifth Of World's Reptile Species Deemed Threatened With Extinction

  About a fifth of reptile species - from the Galapagos tortoises to the Komodo dragon of the Indonesian islands, from West Africa's rhinoceros viper to India's gharial - are threatened with extinction, researchers said.

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  100-Year-Old Giant Tortoise "Diego" Retires After Saving His Species

  Diego the giant Galapagos tortoise whose tireless efforts are credited with almost single-handedly saving his once-threatened species, was put out to pasture Monday on his native island after decades of breeding in captivity, Ecuador's environment minister said.

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  Relative Of Extinct Tortoise Located In Galapagos

  A scientific expedition to the Galapagos Islands has discovered a tortoise with a "strong" genetic link to a presumed-extinct subspecies made famous by the popular Lonesome George, national park officials said Friday.

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  Giant Tortoise, Thought To Be Extinct, Found After 100 Years

  Conservationists in the Galapagos Islands have found a giant tortoise from a species thought to have become extinct more than a century ago.

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  "Extinct" Galapagos Tortoise Found After 100 Years

  A living member of a species of giant tortoise long thought to be extinct has been discovered on the Galapagos island of Ferdinandina.

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  Endangered Galapagos Tortoises Saved From Suspected Traffickers

  Nearly three dozen Galapagos tortoises considered vulnerable to extinction will return to Ecuador after being rescued in Peru from alleged traffickers, the Galapagos National Park said Wednesday.

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  Body Of Tortoise 'Lonesome George' Returned To Galapagos Islands

  The embalmed body of the giant tortoise known as Lonesome George -- the last known survivor of a species that died out in 2012 -- returned home to the Ecuadoran Galapagos Islands on Friday.

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  New Giant Tortoise Species Discovered in Galapagos

  Scientists have identified a new species of giant tortoise on the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific.

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  This Stunt for a Facebook 'Like' Got This Hyderabad Youth Arrested

  Trying to get maximum "likes" on Facebook proved costly for a young man, who decided to get inside an enclosure inside the Hyderabad zoo and pose standing atop the seniormost inhabitant -- a Galapagos tortoise that's over 120 years old.

• Famous pianist uses music to put endangered tortoises in the mood to mate, fails

  Galapagos tortoises at London's zoo lumbered around impassively as famous French pianist Richard Clayderman serenaded them with music from his latest album, "Romantique," on Thursday.

• World loses giant tortoise species with death of Lonesome George

  Lonesome George has died, leaving the world one species poorer.