Philadelphia Zoo and Mural Arts are thrilled to dedicate and unveil brand-new works of art aimed at connecting the surrounding community to the Zoo and highlighting the vital conservation of the ...

Mommy, a Galapagos tortoise at the Philadelphia Zoo who's about 100, has welcomed four hatchlings, making her the oldest first-time mom of her critically endangered species. Visitors can see the ...

A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time parents. In an announcement Friday, the zoo said it is “overjoyed” at ...

Philadelphia Zoo debuts ‘critically endangered’ Sumatran orangutan baby. Jambi, of a critically endangered species specific to a shrinking region of Indonesia, has been promised a “happy, ... Every ...

Abrazzo, the hatchlings' father, came to the Philadelphia Zoo from the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in South Carolina in December 2020. He's estimated to be 96, and hatched in the wild, like Mommy.

One nearly century-old tortoise has been a fixture of the Philadelphia Zoo since 1932 — and now she’s living up to her name. Mommy, the estimated 97-year-old Western Santa Cruz Galapagos ...

PHILADELPHIA – It was Day 7 with 90-plus degree temperatures in Philadelphia, and a lot of the animals were moving a bit more languidly, but Shareef Parker's sons, Michael and Dallas, ages 4 and ...

The Philadelphia Zoo is celebrating the birth of four critically endangered Galapagos tortoises, the first hatchlings born in the zoo’s century-and-a-half existence. The Western Santa Cruz Galapagos ...

Mommy arrived in Philadelphia in 1932, straight from the wilds of the Galápagos. She had had flings with other species, but Abrazzo, whose records go back to a Texas zoo in 1929, was her first ...