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 ...

Across nearly a century and a half, a single Galápagos tortoise watched the world change around her, outlasting wars, cultural revolutions, and more than twenty occupants of the White House. Now ...

A zoo visitor greets Gramma in 2015 at the San Diego Zoo when the tortoise was a spry 130-year-old. (Mark Ralston / AFP via Getty Images) Gramma, a Galápagos tortoise whose life at the San Diego Zoo ...

Natural scientist and author Robert Rothman takes readers on a reptillian tour of the Galápagos Islands in his new book, A Paradise for Reptiles: Lizards, Snakes, and Giant Tortoises of the Galápagos ...

Weighing more than 500 pounds and with an average life span exceeding a century, the Galápagos giant tortoise — once one of nature’s most enduring animals — is now one of its most endangered. Found ...

SAN DIEGO — One of the first animals brought to the San Diego Zoo has died at the age of 141 years old. The zoo announced the death of its beloved Galápagos tortoise, Gramma, on social media, saying ...