Pigs, rats, cats and mongooses, all brought to the island decades earlier by humans, were to blame for their demise, preying ...

A few hundred miles off the coast of Ecuador is a little string of islands with a big place in the public consciousness. The word “Galapagos” is practically synonymous with “tropical island ...

Video by @cincinnatizooHusker comes over for a snack! As one of the longest-lived animals, a Galápagos tortoise can lives 150 years or more! #tortoise #animals #cincinnatizoo ...

“When you think of dogs, you think, well, they already have a fur coat, so they should be fine in the cold, but that isn’t ...

A growing exotic pet trade has conservationists calling for stronger regulations to protect the reptiles, birds and other animals in the wild that are increasingly showing up for sale on internet ...

Ecuador’s vanguard moral-legal compass for nature is perhaps why the Galápagos Islands, an archipelago 900km off the ...

The Galapagos tortoise is known to live for over a century in the wild, with some individuals living longer than 150 years.