The world’s largest palaeoburrow is located in the Amazon Rainforest and is so long it’d take you roughly 20 minutes to walk ...

Woodland Park Zoo will feature two giant tortoises for its "Wild Encounters" exhibit, and visitors will soon be able to touch ...

'The Last Animal' features a large international ensemble led by Portuguese star Joaquim de Almeida and chronicles the ins and outs of one of Brazil's jogo do bicho, one of the world's largest illegal ...

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 ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. She moved slowly, as if time were something best savored. Visitors ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gramma, the beloved Galapagos tortoise who lived at the San Diego Zoo for nearly a century, has died on Nov. 20. She was (about) ...

Gramma, the beloved Galapagos tortoise who lived at the San Diego Zoo for nearly a century, has died on Nov. 20. She was (about) 141. The zoo's care team "made the compassionate and exceptionally ...

The California zoo invited fans of the late Galápagos tortoise to enjoy one of her favorite snacks, a "generous, fruit-filled salad," in her honor San Diego Zoo/I/nstagram Gramma, the Galápagos ...

Gramma's 138th birthday was celebrated at the San Diego Zoo in 2022. (San Diego Zoo/YouTube | Screenshot by NPR) No one knows exactly when Gramma the Galápagos tortoise was born on that volcanic chain ...

Gramma, who died at the zoo on Thursday, was believed to have been born in 1884, when Chester A. Arthur was in the White House. By Victor Mather Tortoises are slow. While most of Earth’s creatures zip ...

TAPAUA, Brazil (AP) — Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute released giant Amazon River turtle hatchlings into the waters of the Abufari Biological Reserve in Tapaua, Amazonas ...