When Fray Tomás de Berlanga first landed on the Galapagos Islands in 1535, he wasn’t impressed by the dry, volcanic landscape. However, he certainly was shocked to see giant tortoises so enormous ...

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No one knows exactly when Gramma was born. But if the estimated birth year of 1884 is accurate, Chester Arthur occupied the ...

Around 11 a.m. on a recent Thursday, I found myself feeding a stalk of celery to a several-hundred-pound giant tortoise. He and his prehistoric-looking brethren moved at a glacial pace, inching ...

Gramma the tortoise, the oldest living resident at the San Diego Zoo, died at the age of 141, according to the zoo.

The reptiles were imported from the Galapagos islands by aristocrats and eaten as a delicacy - Rodrigo Buendia/AFP A guide on how to cook and serve a giant tortoise is among a slew of recipes ...