Back in the late 1800s, groups of whalers, settlers, and pirates completely shifted the balance of the Galapagos Islands by ...

World-renowned giant tortoises in the Galápagos Islands are ingesting plastic at astounding rates, potentially harming the critically endangered species. A study showed that tortoises in urban areas ...

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 ...

Researchers have captured the moment when a lifelong vegetarian broke rank to eat meat -- and what made it all the more "horrifying" was that it was a tortoise. Scientists captured the moment on video ...

Section I. Overview -- The Galapagos : island home of giant tortoises / Jack Frazier -- Galapagos tortoises : protagonists in the spectacle of life on Earth / Jack Frazier -- Section II. History of ...

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s most impressive longevity experiments. Giant tortoises are redefining what ...

Little Dot, an Aldabra giant tortoise estimated to be born in 1936, is one of the five giant tortoises going on display at the Indianapolis Zoo this weekend. While the tortoises’ permanent habitat is ...