Galapagos Tortoises are among the most iconic animals in the world. Extremely rare, they exist naturally only on the Galapagos Islands, a province of Ecuador. Of the original 15 species of giant ...

Fossil tortoise at the Central Natural Science Collections at MLU. Credit: Markus Scholz / MLU The evolution of giant tortoises might not be linked to islands, as has previously been thought. In a ...

The tortoise’s life cycle is much like a human’s: They don’t begin reproducing until their mid-teens, and they live 50 to 100 years. This can make it hard to convince the public that the animals are ...