San Diego’s “Queen of the Zoo” has died. Her name was Gramma, and she was a Galápagos tortoise whose 141 years of existence (give or take) included more than 20 presidents, two world wars and a pair ...

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More than 150 giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Floreana Island in Ecuador's famed Galapagos archipelago where they disappeared more than a century ago, the environment ministry said Friday.

After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galápagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died. Gramma was born ...

The island of Floreana, part of the Galápagos archipelago, is steeped in mystery and lore. From its history as a prison in the 1830s to eccentric human inhabitants one hundred years later to the world ...

In February, conservationists released 158 young tortoises onto Floreana Island in the Galapagos. The Floreana tortoise subspecies had long been thought extinct, but the discovery of close relatives ...

FLOREANA ISLAND, ECUADOR — Nine men walk single file like an army, marching uphill and under the equatorial sun with hundred-pound plastic crates strapped to their backs. When they finally crest the ...