A giant tortoise species believed extinct for more than a century has been formally confirmed alive. Genetic analysis published in 2022 established that a female tortoise found on Fernandina Island in ...

Declared extinct for over a century, a lone giant tortoise has resurfaced on a remote volcanic island, raising urgent questions about survival, hidden populations, and whether a lost lineage can truly ...

It’s not every day you meet someone (or something) that was alive during the U.S. Civil War, the reign of Queen Victoria, and the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. But Jonathan, a Seychelles giant ...

The world used to be full of giant tortoises, and the ones that live on the Seychelles and Galápagos islands are all we have left. But how did these big reptiles get to the islands in the first place?

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Have you ever wanted to meet one of the largest species of tortoise in the world? Well, look no further than the new, up-close experience with Metro Richmond Zoo’s ...

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 ...