What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...
PHILADELPHIA – Sixteen critically endangered western Santa Cruz tortoises born to some very old parents got a slow walk and the red carpet treatment Wednesday at a Philadelphia Zoo event to show off ...
Citizen scientists can help track the progress of a new population of tortoises in the Galapagos with the Giant Tortoise Initiative on Zooniverse. Finches may have been the key to Darwin's theory of ...