The Philadelphia Zoo welcomed four new Western Santa Cruz tortoises, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise. What makes these ...

A Galapagos tortoise at the Philadelphia Zoo has four new hatchlings. The first-time mother and her mate are both 100 years old!

The arrival of their offspring bumped up the population of these Galapagos tortoises to a total of 48 in American facilities.

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One of the longest-lived animals just became a parent at an amazing age! Here's more about this lovely mother, and her ...

The Philadelphia Zoo announced that its 2 oldest residents, Mommy and Abrazzo, who are both critically endangered Western ...

The team say they hope there will be more baby tortoises since eggs can take four to eight months to hatch. Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoises are critically endangered, with only 3,400 ...

This month, the Philadelphia Zoo announced the arrival of four hatchlings born to the male tortoise Abrazzo and the aptly ...

Mommy has been living at the Philadelphia Zoo for 90 years, and waited until old age to experience motherhood.

The births were a "first" in the zoo's 150-year history, and Mommy, who arrived in 1932, was the oldest known first-time ...

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