Born in the 1880s, Gramma the Galapagos tortoise lived through world wars and pandemics while becoming a symbol of ...

These massive, slow-moving creatures are famous for their size, longevity and role in shaping their ecosystems. They're living symbols of conservation and natural history. They survive extreme ...

This article was written by Albert Otkjaer for Vlast.kz and published on August 19, 2025. An edited version of the article is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. The vast ...

For more than a century, a single Galápagos tortoise watched the world change from the calm shade of an enclosure in San Diego. Known as Gramma, she arrived long before jet travel and streaming ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. She moved slowly, as if time were something best savored. Visitors ...

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large distances Kevin Gepford Life on Aldabra atoll, on the western fringe of the ...

What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...