The adult female tortoise was found on the island of Fernandina in the west of the Pacific archipelago and is believed to be a Fernandina Giant Tortoise, also known as Chelonoidis phantasticus, a ...

At first, Tapia couldn’t believe his eyes, “but when I [had] Fernanda in my hands, I believed,” he says, adding that the team later named the female tortoise after her home island. Finding a ...

Audrie Locke, public outreach coordinator for the program, says the tortoise likely won’t be asleep as long as he was last year. After hunkering down last year with two female tortoises in a ...

The life cycle of a Galapagos tortoise begins when a female lays her tortoise eggs in a shallow nest, typically digging a hole in sandy or volcanic soil. Each clutch contains two to 16 eggs ...

After 15 years of living with a female tortoise from the nearby Wolf volcano, Lonesome George did mate, but the eggs were infertile. He also shared his corral with female tortoises from Española ...

It reaches up to 60cm in length and weighs up to 20-37kg. Most Asian turtles and tortoises are sexually diamorphic, with the female being up to 10cm larger than the male. Turtles and tortoises move ...