The Denver Zoo announced Friday that its baby African pancake tortoise now has a name. Zoom in: Meet Maple, the first African ...

The Denver Zoo's baby African pancake tortoise has a new name! Find out the breakfast-themed name that won TODAY.com voters ...

The zoo announced on June 10 that it welcomed a baby African pancake tortoise to its facility. The female reptile is the ...

The critically endangered female tortoise hatched May 23, after about six months in incubation, and marks the first ...

The Erie Zoo's North American river otter couple go for a swim while Bornean orangutan Dasa and her son, Otis, hang out in ...

A baby African pancake tortoise hatched for the first time ever at the Denver Zoo on Friday, May 23, 2025. Pancake tortoises are critically endangered in the wild.

A female African pancake tortoise hatched at the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance on May 23, 2025, marking the zoo’s first-ever successful breeding and hatching of the Critically Endangered species.

Search warrants uncovered an additional two hog nose snakes, 45 tarantulas, three eco-skeleton spiders, two scorpions, an African hedgehog and an alligator snapping turtle.

Alagba, an African spur-thighed tortoise, was said to have lived in the royal palace of Ogbomoso, Nigeria, for centuries. In 2019, palace officials announced that Alagba had died at the age of 344 ...

The director of Dingle Oceanworld Aquarium in Daingean Uí Chúis, Co Kerry, has said he is very grateful to Aer Lingus for agreeing to fly Solstice the turtle to the Canary Islands, where it will ...