The Philadelphia Zoo has sprouted five massive plant displays of giant animals and insects. At the entrance is a huge ...

Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we’ll be examining ...

The pair of Western Santa Cruz tortoises, who've been at the Philadelphia Zoo since 1932 and 2020, respectively, are two of the zoo's most popular residents. Mommy is believed to be the oldest ...

Spring is in the air … and at the Philadelphia Zoo. In a partnership with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the zoo is ready to refresh, revitalize and reimagine its 42-acre gardens.

A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time parents. In an announcement Friday, the zoo said it is “overjoyed” at ...

That's the case for a pair of critically endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises after four baby tortoises recently hatched at the Philadelphia Zoo. The parents -- aptly-named Mommy and ...

The Philadelphia Zoo welcomed four new Western Santa Cruz tortoises, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise. What makes these new additions remarkable is that their mother, affectionately named ...