She has covered everything from ancient Egyptian temples to exciting ... The last time the program reported a successful hatching was in 2019, when a tortoise at Riverbanks Zoo and Garden, South ...

The zoo on Wednesday debuted its four female Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise hatchlings, moving them to their public ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Zoo is celebrating the mother tortoise and her babies that set a world record. The ...

The Western Santa Cruz Galapagos Tortoises are making international headlines. At nearly 100-years old, the mother, whose ...

It took nearly 100 years for a duo of endangered Philadelphia Zoo tortoises to become parents -- the time to name those hatchlings will be much, much shorter.

It is hard to tell the girls apart, so zookeepers put a little dot of different color nail polish on each of them.

For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise ...

Today, she tips the scales at 284 pounds. Each baby tortoise weighs about the same as a chicken egg. Philadelphia Zoo The hatchlings’ father is Abrazzo, who is estimated to be around 96 years old.

The Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises hatched Thursday, according to a release, and there’s potential that even more eggs could hatch in the coming weeks. The Philadelphia Zoo announced the ...

nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo in the US have become first-time parents. The zoo said it was “overjoyed” at the arrival of the four hatchlings, the first in ...