Subspecies driven to extinction by hungry whalers returns after ‘back breeding’ programme using partial descendants ...

For the first time in 180 years, giant tortoises walk again on Floreana Island—in largest restoration effort ever undertaken in Galápagos.

On February 20, 158 captive-bred creatures were released onto the island. The return of these young tortoises, ages 8 to 13, marks the beginning of a historic conservation effort, and they are the ...

Over 150 captive-bred, juvenile tortoises have been released in coordination with a landmark ecological restoration project ...

On a hot February morning, Galápagos National Park rangers released 50 giant tortoises back to Floreana Island—marking the ...

Long before there were modern laboratories and high-powered microscopes, a curious young Englishman began asking simple but powerful questions. Why do animals look the way they do? How do plants adapt ...

This was not the Galapagos wildlife encounter I expected, but considering I’d already spotted five of the iconic “Big 15” animals between the airport and the seaport, run-ins with the 9,000 other ...

The island of Floreana, part of the Galápagos archipelago, is steeped in mystery and lore. From its history as a prison in the 1830s to eccentric human inhabitants one hundred years later to the ...

Giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Floreana Island in the Galapágos, 180 years after going extinct there.

February 12 is Darwin Day, marking the birth anniversary of Charles Darwin. Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection changed biology forever. His ideas still guide research in genetics, ...

The tortoises were bred in captivity and later released on the island.

For the first time in nearly two centuries, giant tortoises are once again roaming Floreana Island in the Galápagos, a conservation milestone more than a decade in the making. Early settlers on ...