The names Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia pay tribute to the ladies of "The Golden Girls." More than 13,000 people voted for the names. Their nearly 100-year-old mother, named "Mommy", made ...

The Philadelphia Zoo's four new female tortoise hatchlings have been named. Votes for the names topped 13,000. They are named ...

There are other meat-eating caterpillars that “do lots of crazy things, but this takes the cake,” said study author Dan ...

In early April, the Philadelphia Zoo welcomed four baby tortoises to their family, the first to be born there in the Zoo's ...

After a 97-year-old Galápagos tortoise named Mommy gave birth, David Muir reports on the debut of four critically endangered Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo.

Even more remarkably, Mommy is the oldest first-time parent of her species, according to a press release from the zoo. Mommy ...

"eating and growing appropriately." Mommy is considered one of the most genetically valuable Galapagos tortoises in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Species Survival Plan, the zoo said in an ...

A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia ... the Reptile and Amphibian House for now, “eating and growing appropriately,” the zoo said.

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia ... and Amphibian House for now, “eating and growing appropriately ...

A Galapagos tortoise is seen at the Charles Darwin Research ... the scenes inside the Reptile and Amphibian House for now, "eating and growing appropriately," the zoo said. They weigh between ...