For a century, biologists have been intrigued by a species of Galápagos tortoise thought extinct. But a tortoise recently discovered on a volcanic island belonged to that species, a new paper says.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A Las Vegas nonprofit wants to stop the backyard breeding of tortoises. Tortoise Group Board Chair, Laura Deitsch, says right now there are about 150,000 pet tortoises in the ...

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

If more tortoises such as Fernanda are found, conservationists could begin a captive breeding program to keep her species alive. Both Fernanda and the 1906 tortoise have really high genetic diversity ...

ROME – Rome’s main zoo has successfully bred several rare Egyptian tortoises whose parents were rescued from a smuggler’s suitcase in 2005, officials said. The first egg hatched in April, six more ...

The “fantastic giant tortoise” – a rare Galapagos species with a huge, flared shell – has only been identified once, more than a century ago, in 1906. It’s since widely been considered extinct. But ...

An ESF scientist is part of a research team that has discovered there are two species of giant tortoises — not just one, as had been long believed — living on the island of Santa Cruz in the center of ...

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