A species of tortoise long believed extinct has been found alive and well on the Galápagos Islands. The reptile, named Fernanda after her Fernandina Island home, is the first of her species ...

Following the viral arrival of the four critically-endangered tortoise hatchlings earlier this year, the zoo has just ...

The father, Abrazzo, is also a Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise. Both tortoises belong to a species listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Mommy, who has lived at the zoo for nearly 93 years, is seen as one of the most "genetically valuable Galapagos tortoises" in the Association of Zoos and Aquarium's Species Survival Plan.

Three new Galapagos tortoise babies join their four sisters, who hatched earlier this year and were named after the "Golden ...

A rare Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise who is estimated to be 97 has become the oldest known first-time mother of her species, according to officials at Philadelphia Zoo. Mommy, who has ...

The hatchlings were born to the approximately 100-year-old Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise known as “Mommy,” who is now the oldest first-time mom of her species and the zoo’s oldest ...

These are from the same clutch of eggs that produced four female tortoises earlier in the year, putting Mommy on the map as ...

A Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise named Mommy gave birth to four ... She is now the first of her species to give birth in the zoo's history. Mommy is also the oldest of her species to become a ...

Four of them have since hatched — the first successful hatching for her species at the zoo, which opened in 1874. She had help, of course — from Abrazzo, a male tortoise who is also estimated ...