Conservationists in the Galapagos Islands have found a giant tortoise from a species thought to have become extinct more than a century ago. The adult female tortoise was found on the island of ...

Genetic tests have confirmed that a giant tortoise found on the ... that there are more individuals of the species left in the wild. The Director of the Galapagos National Park, Danny Rueda ...

Scientists have confirmed the tortoise, nicknamed Fernanda, belongs to a species thought extinct for over a century, according to a paper published this week in the journal Communications Biology.

A giant tortoise whose legendary libido has been credited with saving his species from extinction is to return to the wild on the Galápagos Islands. Diego was among 14 male tortoises selected to ...

Prolific Galapagos giant tortoise Diego is being released back into the wild after being credited by authorities with almost single handedly saving his species from extinction. The 100-year-old ...

Unique island species including lemurs and the Galapagos giant tortoise could be at high risk of extinction if the planet warms by more than 3°C above pre-industrial levels, new research warns.

The repatriations form part of the Iniciativa Galápagos project, which aims to rewild 15 endangered species across the 127-island archipelago including the giant tortoise, iguana and waved ...

Iconic species such as tortoises, finches, boobies, and marine iguanas could suffer. The famed ecosystems that taught the world about natural selection may teach us a lesson yet again, offering us ...

The tortoises on some islands have shells that ... This can involve things like reintroducing species that have disappeared or repairing damaged ecosystems. On the island of Floreana in the ...

Fifteen species have evolved here and three species have already been lost. At the privately-owned El Chato Ranch, where ...