These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

The arrival of their offspring bumped up the population of these Galapagos tortoises to a total of 48 in American facilities.

They were right about the strangeness: Cut off from mainland South America by about 600 miles of water, nature here ran wild. Among the animals that made the voyage to the islands from the ...

Mommy, a Western Santa Cruz tortoise, recently welcomed four hatchlings at the Philadelphia Zoo, where she has lived since ...

A 97-year-old tortoise makes history for the critically endangered species.

The islands are quite close together and they have similar landscapes, plants and animals. But if you look carefully, you can see that they’re not exactly the same. For example, the finches on ...

It's also a wise idea to invest in an underwater camera (think: a GoPro) or a waterproof case for your smartphone, so you can capture the incredible underwater creatures such as stingrays ...