This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The first time a tortoise walked through my hut at Middle Camp on Aldabra Atoll, I was amazed. I grabbed my camera and ...

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Edie has lived at the San Antonio Zoo since 1973, meaning that she's spent 51 years there. At 150 years old, that's only a third of her life! Since she landed in San Antonio, she's enjoyed thousands ...

Today, other flightless members of this family, like the Aldabra rail shown here, still live on oceanic islands where they evolved in the absence of predators and had no need to fly. The Haitian ...

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Aldabra, a pristine wilderness, is home to over 100,000 tortoises. It is also a windswept, unwelcoming crumb of land, floating in open ocean far from anywhere and covered with razor-sharp limestone ...

If you love getting your back scratched, you're not alone. The Nashville Zoo shared an adorable video this week of their Aldabra tortoise, Koraline, getting a shell scratch. Did you know?

The Aldabra tortoises, giraffes, elephants, kudu, bonobos, coatis and gorillas all headed toward their barns. Zoos were also able to observe some unique daytime behavior from nocturnal animals.

Researchers mapped coral reef connectivity across the Seychelles archipelago to inform conservation efforts in the face of ...

After studying various species earlier this month, some scientists now say they understand the origin of animal behavior ...

Improvements were also noted for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Australia), Pirin National Park (Bulgaria), Manas Tiger Reserve (India), Niokolo Koba National Park (Senegal) and Aldabra Atoll ...

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