“Please avoid stepping on the marine iguanas,” Ivan, my naturalist guide for the afternoon, quietly whispered to me. I was so busy taking photographs of a family of blue-footed boobies – the mother ...

Located at the San Diego Zoo, Gramma, the resident tortoise, was born in the Galapagos Islands around 1884. Those at the zoo ...

Back in the late 1800s, groups of whalers, settlers, and pirates completely shifted the balance of the Galapagos Islands by ...

GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS, Ecuador — Editor's Note: The pictured tortoise above is not the one discovered in the Galapagos. A giant tortoise found in 2019 on the Galapagos island of Fernandina is said to be ...

Plenty of islands claim to be Galapagos-like, but are they really? These gorgeous, must-visit destinations have much in ...

Animals that researchers call “supersucklers” come back to nurse even after they can hunt, mate and fend for themselves.

SYDNEY -- It has been described as Australia's Galapagos Islands and has long been a refuge for some of the country's most endangered creatures. But devastating wildfires over recent days have undone ...

Warm morning light reflects from the remains of a natural rock arch near Darwin Island, one of the most remote islands in the Galapagos. In clear, deep blue water, thousands of creatures — fish, ...

PHILADELPHIA — On Thursday, the Philadelphia Zoo announced the hatching of four critically endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises for the first time in the zoo’s 151-year history. The ...

I quickly splash back into the water from the edge of the panga (or dinghy) where I was taking a break from snorkeling. My wetsuit is only half-zipped, but I quickly swim the 30 or so feet to where my ...

MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida zoo’s oldest resident celebrated his 135th birthday and his first Father’s Day on Sunday. Goliath, a 517-pound (234-kilogram) Galapagos tortoise at Zoo Miami, became a ...