ST. LOUIS (Gray News) – The Saint Louis Zoo is mourning the death of one of its oldest residents – an Aldabra giant tortoise that was well over 100 years old. The zoo said the tortoise named Othello ...
Four endangered baby tortoises have made their highly anticipated public debut at the Philadelphia Zoo as the first hatchlings of their 100-year-old mother, Mommy. Mommy, a western Santa Cruz ...
Othello and his buddy Ray, who is still living at the Saint Louis Zoo, arrived in the United States as mature adults in 1938 – a whopping 87 years ago. Experts they were at least “several decades” old ...