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

Fittingly, gopher tortoises in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama (west of the Mobile and Tombigbee rivers) are protected as threatened under the Endangered Species Act — but those in eastern Alabama, ...

A roughly 100-year-old western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise has become a mom for the first time after reproducing with a ...

She is also the oldest first-time mom of the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos species. The last clutch of such tortoises to hatch ...

The tegu is a large, invasive species of lizard that's native to South America ... well as the eggs of reptiles like the American alligator and gopher tortoise. Tegus will also eat fruit ...

Philadelphia Zoo announced the arrival of four hatchlings from Mommy and Abrazzo on Friday, a first in its more than 150-year ...

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

Mommy, who has been with the zoo since 1932, was paired with Abrazzo, estimated to be 96, who was transferred to Philadelphia in December 2020 from Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in South Carolina.