To celebrate our daughter Corey’s birthday, we traveled to Ecuador, the Andes Mountains and the Galápagos Islands in September with gate1travel.com. We saw many beautiful birds, mammals, reptiles, ...

LOS ANGELES — After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galapagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died.

The Galapagos is no place for a mammal. But it's a great place to be a reptile. Land animals had to make the trip here via rafts of vegetation that broke loose from the mainland, which isn't so bad if ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galápagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has ...

In the following century, conservationists set out to restore the Galápagos giant tortoise on Española—and the island ecosystem. They began eradicating the introduced species, and capturing Española’s ...

The Galápagos Islands are a spectacular natural treasure, offering a unique opportunity to witness the forces of change, both natural and human. It was here in 1835 that Charles Darwin's observations ...

Gramma, a Galápagos tortoise and the oldest animal at the San Diego Zoo, digs into a meal in October last year. - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance/AP After more than a century of munching on her ...