The spillage of more than 150,000 gallons of diesel oil from an Ecuadorean tanker near the Galapagos Islands is a "catastrophe", the environmentalist David Bellamy warned today. The spill ...

Galapagos tortoises are herbivores native to the Galapagos Islands, off the coast of Ecuador. Female tortoises typically lay up to 20 billiard-ball-sized eggs at a time, according to the ...

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A Galapagos tortoise is seen at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island in Ecuador in this Nov. 11, 2008, file photo unrelated to the story. (Mainichi/Akihiro Hirata) PHILADELPHIA ...

Galapagos Crake has been recorded on the Galápagos island of Floreana for the first time in 190 years. The elusive rallid was last seen on the island by Charles Darwin as long ago as 1835 and was ...

A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time parents. In an announcement Friday, the zoo said it is “overjoyed” at ...

The births represent a critical achievement in the ongoing conservation efforts to preserve the species, which is native to the Galapagos Islands. The zoo has confirmed the successful hatching of ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (AP) — A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time parents. In an announcement Friday, the zoo said ...

celebrating the arrival of a new generation of Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises, the largest living tortoise species and a critically endangered species native to the Santa Cruz Island of ...

Mommy has lived at Philadelphia Zoo for more than 90 years. After hatching in the wild in the Galápagos Islands, she was brought to Pennsylvania by a man named Milton W. Holden on April 23 ...

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