For most of us, visiting the zoo as a child brings up happy memories of adventures, melting ice cream, and childhood friends. Luckily, zoos aren’t just for kids; as a grown-up, you can go whenever you ...

When it comes to beach vacations, exclusivity is the ultimate luxury, and that's why private island resorts are so appealing: Imagine waking up steps from an empty beach with few to no other ...

A zoo in Leeds has welcomed five giant tortoises after they outgrew their previous home. The group of sulcata tortoises, also known as African spurred tortoises, has moved from the Blue Planet ...

The group of sulcata tortoises became too big for their previous home at the Blue Planet Aquarium in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire A zoo in Leeds has welcomed five giant tortoises after they outgrew ...

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 ...

Studying preserved footprints in New Mexico continues to provide insight into the first human movements in North America. A research team believes the footprints are more than 23,000 years old ...

In January, a rehabilitation center for critically endangered tortoises in southern Madagascar was severely impacted by heavy flooding caused by two cyclones. The rescue center hosts thousands of ...

Nampally lake in Hyderabad's Public Gardens is drying up, endangering its aquatic life, including tortoises introduced two months ago. Due to sewage contamination and summer heat, most fish have ...

A single boulder at a regional school in central Queensland was hiding 66 fossilized footprints in plain sight. Researchers that 47 individual dinosaurs made marks on the boulder, which originally ...

Australian researchers have found a boulder with one of the country’s highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints, and it turns out it had been on display at a high school. The 66 fossilized ...