The arrival of their offspring bumped up the population of these Galapagos tortoises to a total of 48 in American facilities.

Proud parents Mommy and Abrazzo are both nearly 100 years old, but they’re contributing to Galápagos tortoise conservation at ...

The Philadelphia Zoo has officially welcomed four new Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises. For the first time in this ...

A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time ...

The hatchlings’ parents, female Mommy and male Abrazzo, however, are likely well-known to zoo-goers. Both are estimated to be ...

This month, the Philadelphia Zoo announced the arrival of four hatchlings born to the male tortoise Abrazzo and the aptly ...

The Philadelphia Zoo is celebrating the birth of four critically endangered Galapagos tortoises, the first hatchlings born in ...

Mommy is also considered to be "one of the most genetically valuable Galapagos tortoises in the Association of Zoos and ...

A pair of Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoises, who are estimated to be around a century old, have become parents for the ...

The first of the four hatchlings, all female, began to emerge from its white, hard-shelled egg on Feb. 27, the zoo said. The four hatchlings are part of a clutch of 16 eggs Mommy laid back in November ...