Story Transcript Researchers have confirmed that a giant tortoise found on Fernandina Island in the Galapagos archipelago is one of a species that was thought to have gone extinct last century ...

Read Story Transcript When Justin Gerlach's colleague first told him she'd seen a giant tortoise hunting and killing a baby bird, he was skeptical. After all, not only are tortoises famously slow ...

A farm in East Asia has brought one of the most iconic fables to life: Aesop's The Tortoise and the Hare - but will the reptile's 'slow but steady' approach triumph over haste in the race?

A giant Galapagos tortoise has turned 135 – and he’s also just become a father for the first time, says Miami Zoo officials. Despite multiple breeding attempts throughout his lifetime, Goliath ...

Diego, a tortoise of the endangered Chelonoidis hoodensis subspecies from Espanola Island, is seen in a breeding centre at the Galapagos National Park on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos ...

A 97-year-old Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise at the Philadelphia Zoo became a mom for the first time in 2025, hatching four tortoises She shares her children with their 96-year-old father ...

A tortoise that went on the run for 16 days after escaping from its pen in Devon has been found near an ice cream parlour. Shelly, the leopard tortoise, went missing from Shillingford Abbott near ...

A tortoise in Cumbria, United Kingdom, went missing nine months ago after escaping its owner's garden. The reptile was found a mile away from its home.

A TORTOISE slow to become a father has had his first child — aged 135. Goliath, a Galapagos tortoise weighing 517lb, had never had kids despite trying with a number of females over the years.