Since the tortoises' digestion process can take 28 days, the researchers are worried about the effects of the trash.

In the following century, conservationists set out to restore the Galápagos giant tortoise on Española—and the island ecosystem. They began eradicating the introduced species, and capturing Española’s ...

These massive, slow-moving creatures are famous for their size, longevity and role in shaping their ecosystems. They're living symbols of conservation and natural history. They survive extreme ...

There are few things more tragic than the extinction of an entire species, but the end of the Pinta Island tortoise hits ...

Ecuador - A team of scientists has found a giant tortoise from a species thought to have gone extinct more than 100 years ago, according to a press release issued Tuesday. After two years, a team from ...

When Fray Tomás de Berlanga first landed on the Galapagos Islands in 1535, he wasn’t impressed by the dry, volcanic landscape. However, he certainly was shocked to see giant tortoises so enormous that ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have identified a new species of giant tortoise on the Galápagos Islands, using genetic data to determine that a group of 250 of the slow-moving grazing reptiles was ...

The embalmed body of the giant tortoise known as Lonesome George -- the last known member of a species that was wiped out with his death in 2012 -- returned home to the Ecuadoran Galapagos Islands.

A species of giant tortoise believed to have been extinct for more than 100 years has been discovered on the Galapagos island of Fernandina, according to Ecuador’s government. The last known time a ...

Zoo Miami's oldest animal, a 517-pound Galapagos tortoise named Goliath, is celebrating an extraordinary double milestone this Father's Day: turning 135 years old and becoming a father for the first ...

(Reuters) - A group of giant tortoises who have lived in captivity for decades and helped rescue their species from the brink of extinction were released into the wild in the Galapagos Islands on ...