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'Seemingly impossible': Endangered tortoise becomes first-time mom at about 100 years old
A roughly 100-year-old western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise has become a mom for the first time after reproducing with a ...
TheTravel on MSN3d
From Marine Iguanas To Giant Tortoises: Discovering The Galápagos Islands With Lindblad Expeditions
TheTravel was invited to the Galapagos Islands with Lindblad Expeditions, an area home to some of the most unique animals in ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN6d
Thousands of Giant Tortoises Anchor a Thriving Ecosystem on Aldabra, a Remote Atoll in the Indian Ocean
The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...
An Endangered Tortoise Just Became a First-Time Mom. She's 100 Years Old.
Even more remarkably, Mommy is the oldest first-time parent of her species, according to a press release from the zoo. Mommy ...
AOL18d
Nearly 100-year-old tortoise becomes 1st-time mom to 4 baby hatchlings
The Philadelphia Zoo made the announcement Thursday, celebrating the arrival of a new generation of Western Santa Cruz ...
Smithsonian Magazine17d
At 97, Endangered Tortoise Becomes Oldest First-Time Mom of Her Species With Four New Hatchlings—and Potentially More on the Way
Proud parents Mommy and Abrazzo are both nearly 100 years old, but they’re contributing to Galápagos tortoise conservation at ...
Critically Endangered Tortoise Is a First-Time Mom at Nearly 100 Years Old
This month, the Philadelphia Zoo announced the arrival of four hatchlings born to the male tortoise Abrazzo and the aptly ...
The New York Times17d
An Endangered Galápagos Tortoise Is a First-Time Mother at 100
Before the new arrivals, there were only 44 Western Santa Cruz Giant tortoises in all of the zoos in the United States, according to the Philadelphia Zoo. The baby tortoises will likely never ...
Zoo's tortoises become first-time parents ... aged about 100
A pair of critically endangered giant tortoises aged about 100 years old have become ... a pair Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises. The births were a "first" in the zoo's 150-plus-year history, it ...
ABC News18d
Nearly 100-year-old tortoise becomes 1st-time mom to 4 baby hatchlings
Philadelphia Zoo The Philadelphia Zoo made the announcement Thursday, celebrating the arrival of a new generation of Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises, the largest living tortoise species and ...