Jackie Tliemat is a PhD student at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi studying diseases in Texas Tortoises May 23, 2024 is World Turtle Day Texas Tortoises are a threatened species and people often ...

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(WPHL) — For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise family. The zoo announced the hatching of four critically endangered ...

A couple of residents at the Philadelphia Zoo are telling the likes of Mick Jagger and Robert DeNiro — two famous older fathers — to take a step back. Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises Mommy and ...

Jay Brewer shares fun facts about the African Spur Thigh (Sulcata) Tortoise, including their defense mechanisms, habitat, & unique water intake! Learn about baby tortoises too!

What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...

Weighing more than 500 pounds and with an average life span exceeding a century, the Galápagos giant tortoise — once one of nature’s most enduring animals — is now one of its most endangered. Found ...