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

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 ...

From horseshoe crabs to crocodiles, some of these creatures have looked about the same for hundreds of millions of years.

The project has been supported for more than a decade by traveler donations to the Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic Fund, which represents the longest-running and largest travel brand ...

Giant tortoises have returned to Floreana Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago as conservationists release 158 juvenile ...

According to Fauna & Flora, these prehistoric sea turtles trace their origins back to the dinosaur era, but their population ...

Eleven-year-old Touren Pope was hunting for rocks in southwest Wyoming when he came across the fossil of a soft-shelled ...

Touren Pope, 11, discovered a nearly 50-million-year-old fossil while hunting for rocks with his grandparents in Wyoming.

Critically endangered leatherback turtles are once again building nests along Nicaragua's Pacific shoreline after a prolonged absence. According to Fauna & Flora, these prehistoric sea turtles trace ...

Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an apparently fate-tempting plea. "I kept joking through that whole class, ...

Deep in the coastal woods of South Carolina, behind high fences, guard dogs, and security cameras, is a group of people who know more about turtles than you. Posters and paintings of turtles and ...

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